Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 AAA – Links With Same Accessible Name

This rule checks links with the same accessible name serve a similar purpose.

Best practice is that links with the same destination would have the same descriptions, but links with different purposes and destinations would have different descriptions.

How to Analyse in the SEO Spider

To populate this filter ‘Accessibility’ must be enabled via ‘Config > Spider > Extraction’ and ‘JavaScript rendering’ mode via ‘Config > Spider > Rendering’.

View URLs with this issue in the ‘Accessibility’ tab and ‘Links With Same Accessible Name’ filter.

Use the lower ‘Accessibility Details’ tab to click on the issue on the left-hand side, and see details of the location on the page of the violation on the right-hand side.

Bulk export the pages and details of the accessibility violations via ‘Bulk Export > Accessibility > All Violations’.

What Triggers This Issue

Please view the Deque University website further reading link below for ruleset triggers.

How To Fix

Ensure that links with the same accessible name serve a similar purpose.