BFI book releases and trade sales | BFI

Using your BFI Membership | BFI

BFI Player’s January 2026 line-up | BFI

Inside the Archive | BFI

Slade in Flame | BFI

Rob Reiner: 5 essential films | BFI

BFI funded productions | BFI

Features and reviews | BFI

God’s Creatures | BFI

Starve Acre | BFI

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

February 2026

January 2026

British Film Institute

	Title / URL	Issues
	BFI book releases and trade sales \| BFIwww.bfi.org.uk/bfi-book-releases-trade-sales	1
	Using your BFI Membership \| BFIwww.bfi.org.uk/using-your-bfi-membership	1
	BFI Player’s January 2026 line-up \| BFIwww.bfi.org.uk/news/bfi-player-january-2026-line-up	1
	Inside the Archive \| BFIwww.bfi.org.uk/bfi-national-archive/inside-archive	1
	Slade in Flame \| BFIwww.bfi.org.uk/bfi-film-releases/slade-flame	1
	Rob Reiner: 5 essential films \| BFIwww.bfi.org.uk/lists/rob-reiner-five-essential-films	1
	BFI funded productions \| BFIwww.bfi.org.uk/bfi-funded-productions	1
	Features and reviews \| BFIwww.bfi.org.uk/articles/type/videos	1
	God’s Creatures \| BFIwww.bfi.org.uk/bfi-film-releases/gods-creatures	1
	Starve Acre \| BFIwww.bfi.org.uk/bfi-film-releases/starve-acre	1

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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