Combined Degrees | Bryn Mawr College

A Lifetime of Impact | Bryn Mawr College

Get Connected | Bryn Mawr College

Academics | Bryn Mawr College

Partner Schools | Bryn Mawr College

How to Apply | Bryn Mawr College

Admissions & Aid | Bryn Mawr College

The Arts | Bryn Mawr College

Welcome to Bryn Mawr College | Bryn Mawr College

After Bryn Mawr | Bryn Mawr College

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
Combined Degrees \| Bryn Mawr Collegewww.brynmawr.edu/academics/combined-degrees	9
A Lifetime of Impact \| Bryn Mawr Collegewww.brynmawr.edu/admissions-aid/lifetime-impact	8
Get Connected \| Bryn Mawr Collegewww.brynmawr.edu/admissions-aid/get-connected	8
Academics \| Bryn Mawr Collegewww.brynmawr.edu/academics	8
Partner Schools \| Bryn Mawr Collegewww.brynmawr.edu/academics/partner-schools	8
How to Apply \| Bryn Mawr Collegewww.brynmawr.edu/admissions-aid/how-apply	8
Admissions & Aid \| Bryn Mawr Collegewww.brynmawr.edu/admissions-aid	8
The Arts \| Bryn Mawr Collegewww.brynmawr.edu/student-life/arts	8
Welcome to Bryn Mawr College \| Bryn Mawr Collegewww.brynmawr.edu/	8
After Bryn Mawr \| Bryn Mawr Collegewww.brynmawr.edu/after-bryn-mawr	8

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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