Citizens & Visitors | Bamberg County, SC

Code of Ordinances | Bamberg County, SC

First time visit: View without clicking anything

District 5 | Bamberg County, SC

District 1 | Bamberg County, SC

District 4 | Bamberg County, SC

County Council | Bamberg County, SC

Projects | Bamberg County, SC

County Courts | Bamberg County, SC

District 2 | Bamberg County, SC

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

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	Title / URL	Issues
	Citizens & Visitors \| Bamberg County, SCwww.bambergcounty.sc.gov/citizens-visitors	33
	Code of Ordinances \| Bamberg County, SCwww.bambergcounty.sc.gov/code-ordinances	33
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.bambergcounty.sc.gov/	33
	District 5 \| Bamberg County, SCwww.bambergcounty.sc.gov/county-council/district-5	33
	District 1 \| Bamberg County, SCwww.bambergcounty.sc.gov/county-council/district-1	33
	District 4 \| Bamberg County, SCwww.bambergcounty.sc.gov/county-council/district-4	33
	County Council \| Bamberg County, SCwww.bambergcounty.sc.gov/county-council	33
	Projects \| Bamberg County, SCwww.bambergcounty.sc.gov/projects	33
	County Courts \| Bamberg County, SCwww.bambergcounty.sc.gov/county-courts	33
	District 2 \| Bamberg County, SCwww.bambergcounty.sc.gov/county-council/district-2	33

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

Bamberg County, South Carolina

Where this issue has occurred