Investor Relations | audi.com

Standorte des Audi Konzerns | audi.com

Menschen & Gesellschaft | audi.com

Design | audi.com

Produktinnovation | audi.com

Unternehmen | audi.com

Profil | audi.com

Compliance & Risikomanagement | audi.com

Forschung | audi.com

Strategie | 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
Investor Relations \| audi.comwww.audi.com/de/company/investor-relations.html	100
Standorte des Audi Konzerns \| audi.comwww.audi.com/de/company/strategy/locations.html	100
Menschen & Gesellschaft \| audi.comwww.audi.com/de/sustainability/people-society.html	100
Design \| audi.comwww.audi.com/de/innovation/product-innovation/design.html	100
Produktinnovation \| audi.comwww.audi.com/de/innovation/product-innovation.html	100
Unternehmen \| audi.comwww.audi.com/de/company.html	100
Profil \| audi.comwww.audi.com/de/company/profile.html	100
Compliance & Risikomanagement \| audi.comwww.audi.com/de/company/compliance-riskmanagement.html	100
Forschung \| audi.comwww.audi.com/de/innovation/research.html	100
Strategie \| audi.comwww.audi.com/de/company/strategy.html	100

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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