<div dir="ltr"><div>Sounds like a footnote link.  It's perfectly fine to have diff links with diff names point to the same destination.  There's nothing inherently wrong in WCAG regarding it.  When I have links like that, I like to have a link in the footnote that takes me back to the original link (table cell in your case).  I do that by dynamically updating the HREF attribute of the footnote link to point back to the destination.</div><div><br></div><div>Glen</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 10:50 AM Michele Bromley <<a href="mailto:michele.bromley@pdx.edu">michele.bromley@pdx.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Good morning, all!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Apologies for cross-posting. I'm working with a client who is really committed to making their HTML degree maps as accessible as possible. There are several external and in-page links in their template. We've discussed descriptive link names that clearly indicate purpose, etc. We've also discussed the importance of naming links differently/uniquely if they lead to two, separate destinations.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">In one of their course tables, there are three, separate links in three, separate cells that refer to courses in a series (e.g. English 101, English 102, and English 103). Each of these is an in-page link to a note below the table that applies to the entire series. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm having trouble remembering whether or not it's a problem for differently named links to lead to the same destination. Any clarity you can provide would be helpful!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Michele </div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Michele Joy Bromley, CPACC</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IT Accessibility and Content Lead</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.pdx.edu/technology" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Office of Information Technology (OIT)</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.pdx.edu/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Portland State University (PSU)</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="border:medium none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:207px;height:41px"><img alt="Portland State University logo" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/Lr3HIS1FJGRP9IoUo1T5acrE2ipiVNhQ8407j1qOsfnvNHjckt1NYp4g87DBJlHr0cOITXc3hRArjJnjSQUX_1PCoFhZuHz5Dwn74VRLDItwK0_CFI6t5EQbKuoQenfq7SaXBw2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