Learn a Foreign Language For Free | University of Portsmouth

Online Degrees & Distance Learning Courses | University of Portsmouth

Connected Degrees® | University of Portsmouth

Blogs | University of Portsmouth

Graduate toolkit | University of Portsmouth

Webinars | University of Portsmouth

Space Research | University of Portsmouth

News, events, and blogs | University of Portsmouth

How We Can Help Your Business | University of Portsmouth

Careers and employment | University of Portsmouth

Screen reader users will see links on a page listed without context, 
so you should ensure the same link text is not used to point to different web
addresses.

For example:

```html

 Learn the latest about our products: 
 <a href="/products/news">News</a>



 Learn the latest about our services: 
 <a href="/company/news">News</a>

``` 

To a screen reader who is listing links, they will only hear:

* News
* News

These links appear to be the same, but they both behave differently. 
One solution, which doesn't require the page design to change, is to add an 
`aria-label` for each link:

```html

 Learn the latest about our products: 
 <a href="/products/news" aria-label="Product news">News</a>



 Learn the latest about our services: 
 <a href="/company/news" aria-label="Company news">News</a>

``` 

Which will be heard as:

* Product news
* Company news

To pass this checkpoint, make sure that links which point to different pages 
have distinct text inside them, or that they specify ARIA labels (`aria-labelledby` or
`aria-label`), or they use hidden text only visible to screen readers
(e.g. `...`) to distinguish them from each 
other.

If links point to the same page (e.g., they redirect or use tracking
parameters, but are functionally equivalent to the user) you can ignore
this issue.

a-duplicate-link-text-for-different-destinations

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	Title / URL	Issues
	Learn a Foreign Language For Free \| University of Portsmouthwww.port.ac.uk/study/learn-a-foreign-language-for-free	27
	Online Degrees & Distance Learning Courses \| University of Portsmouthwww.port.ac.uk/study/studying-online-by-distance-learning	27
	Connected Degrees® \| University of Portsmouthwww.port.ac.uk/study/connected-degrees	27
	Blogs \| University of Portsmouthwww.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/blogs	17
	Graduate toolkit \| University of Portsmouthwww.port.ac.uk/graduate-toolkit	13
	Webinars \| University of Portsmouthwww.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/webinars	12
	Space Research \| University of Portsmouthwww.port.ac.uk/research/space	12
	News, events, and blogs \| University of Portsmouthwww.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs	11
	How We Can Help Your Business \| University of Portsmouthwww.port.ac.uk/collaborate/business	10
	Careers and employment \| University of Portsmouthwww.port.ac.uk/student-life/careers-and-employment	10

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

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