Links | CESSA Housing Association

Blandford Camp, Dorset | CESSA Housing Association

First time visit: View without clicking anything

ERROR 404 | CESSA Housing Association

Greenwich Court | CESSA Housing Association

Chicksands | CESSA Housing Association

Sheltered Housing Schemes for Ex-Service Personnel | CESSA Housing Association

CESSAC | CESSA Housing Association

RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus | CESSA Housing Association

Privacy Policy | CESSA Housing Association

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
	Links \| CESSA Housing Associationwww.cessaha.co.uk/links	3
	Blandford Camp, Dorset \| CESSA Housing Associationwww.cessaha.co.uk/blandford-camp-dorset	3
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.cessaha.co.uk/	3
	ERROR 404 \| CESSA Housing Associationwww.cessaha.co.uk/error-404	3
	Greenwich Court \| CESSA Housing Associationwww.cessaha.co.uk/housing/greenwich-court	3
	Chicksands \| CESSA Housing Associationwww.cessaha.co.uk/chicksands	3
	Sheltered Housing Schemes for Ex-Service Personnel \| CESSA Housing Associationwww.cessaha.co.uk/	3
	CESSAC \| CESSA Housing Associationwww.cessaha.co.uk/contact/cessac	3
	RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus \| CESSA Housing Associationwww.cessaha.co.uk/raf-akrotiri-cyprus	3
	Privacy Policy \| CESSA Housing Associationwww.cessaha.co.uk/privacy-policy	3

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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