One Stop | Student Resources

Faculty/Staff

Study Abroad, Wisconsin | UW-Whitewater

Continuing Education at UW-Whitewater

College of Letters and Sciences | UW-Whitewater

Admissions | Apply To UW-Whitewater

Center for Students with Disabilities

Students | UW-Whitewater

Campus Tutorial Services Focuses on Student Success

UW-Whitewater at Rock County | College of Integrated Studies

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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University of Wisconsin Whitewater

Title / URL	Issues
One Stop \| Student Resourcesuww.edu/one-stop	36
Faculty/Staffuww.edu/faculty-and-staff	33
Study Abroad, Wisconsin \| UW-Whitewateruww.edu/global-education/study-abroad	15
Continuing Education at UW-Whitewaterwww.uww.edu/ce	14
College of Letters and Sciences \| UW-Whitewaterwww.uww.edu/cls	14
Admissions \| Apply To UW-Whitewateruww.edu/admissions	14
Center for Students with Disabilitiesuww.edu/csd	14
Students \| UW-Whitewateruww.edu/students	12
Campus Tutorial Services Focuses on Student Successuww.edu/tutorial	11
UW-Whitewater at Rock County \| College of Integrated Studieswww.uww.edu/rock	11

Avoid using the same link text for different destinations

University of Wisconsin Whitewater

Where this issue has occurred