Benefits Advisor

Biodiversity

Discounts and Exemptions

Broxtowe Lotto

Garden Waste Collections

Neighbourhood Planning

News & Events

UK Shared Prosperity Fund

Trade Waste

Conservation Areas

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 2025

January 2025

Broxtowe Borough Council

Title / URL	Issues
Benefits Advisorwww.broxtowe.gov.uk/for-you/benefits-grants/benefits-advisor/	100
Biodiversitywww.broxtowe.gov.uk/for-you/climate-change/biodiversity/	100
Discounts and Exemptionswww.broxtowe.gov.uk/for-you/council-tax/discounts-and-exemptions/	100
Broxtowe Lottowww.broxtowe.gov.uk/for-you/community-living/broxtowe-lotto/	100
Garden Waste Collectionswww.broxtowe.gov.uk/for-you/waste-and-recycling/garden-waste-collections/	100
Neighbourhood Planningwww.broxtowe.gov.uk/for-you/planning/planning-policy/neighbourhood-planning/	100
News & Eventswww.broxtowe.gov.uk/news-events/	100
UK Shared Prosperity Fundwww.broxtowe.gov.uk/for-you/investing-in-our-area/uk-shared-prosperity-fund/	100
Trade Wastewww.broxtowe.gov.uk/for-you/waste-and-recycling/trade-waste/	100
Conservation Areaswww.broxtowe.gov.uk/for-you/planning/conservation-areas/	100

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

Broxtowe Borough Council

Where this issue has occurred