404-Page | audi.com

The zip slider that binds the culture of ideas and series production together | audi.com

Strategy | audi.com

Sustainability | audi.com

Compliance & risk management | audi.com

People & Society | audi.com

Product Innovation | audi.com

Design | audi.com

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Company | audi.com

Two adjacent links should not point to the same destination. You almost always want to combine the 
two links.

For example, it is quite common to link an image and text together like this:

```html
<a href="news.html">
    <img src="photo.jpg" alt="" />
</a>
<a href="news.html">
    News
</a>
``` 

These adjacent links should be combined like so:

```html
<a href="news.html">
    <img src="photo.jpg" alt="" />
    News
</a>
``` 

Links to `#` are ignored, as these are nearly always placeholders for JavaScript, e.g.:

```html
<a href="#" onclick="approve()">
    OK
</a>
<a href="#" onclick="reject()">
    Cancel
</a>
```

# Justification

Many users of assistive technology are only able to experience content sequentially - that is, they must
step through each part of the page, one part at a time. Often this is a slow process, potentially 
hampered by a physical impediment.

Stepping through redundant links is time consuming; for example users of a screen reader must 
hear each link read aloud in turn. 

This also simplifies your code. 

# Methodology

1. Find all links (`<a>` tags) on the page.
2. Ignore links pointing to `#`, as these are usually placeholders for JavaScript.
3. Flag links which are (a) separated only by whitespace and (b) which point to the 
   same absolute URL.  

# Learn more

Read about [Technique H2](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H2) on how to combine
an adjacent image and texts links.

duplicate-adjacent-link

January 2025

December 2024

Audi Ag

Title / URL	Issues
404-Page \| audi.comwww.audi.com/invented-url-for-404-page	100
The zip slider that binds the culture of ideas and series production together \| audi.comwww.audi.com/en/innovation/research/audi-production-lab.html	92
Strategy \| audi.comwww.audi.com/en/company/strategy.html	92
Sustainability \| audi.comwww.audi.com/en/sustainablility.html	92
Compliance & risk management \| audi.comwww.audi.com/en/company/compliance-riskmanagement.html	92
People & Society \| audi.comwww.audi.com/en/sustainablility/people-society.html	92
Product Innovation \| audi.comwww.audi.com/en/innovation/product-innovation.html	92
Design \| audi.comwww.audi.com/en/innovation/product-innovation/design.html	92
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.audi.com/en.html	92
Company \| audi.comwww.audi.com/en/company.html	92

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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