Job Vacancies | CESSA Housing Association

First time visit: View without clicking anything

CESSA HA Complaints & Concerns | CESSA Housing Association

Apply For Housing | CESSA Housing Association

Contact the Charity | CESSA Housing Association

ERROR 404 | CESSA Housing Association

CESSAC Centres | CESSA Housing Association

Sketch of Head Office | CESSA Housing Association

Contact the Housing Association | CESSA Housing Association

Additional Support Services | 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
	Job Vacancies \| CESSA Housing Associationwww.cessaha.co.uk/job-vacancies	6
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.cessaha.co.uk/	6
	CESSA HA Complaints & Concerns \| CESSA Housing Associationwww.cessaha.co.uk/cessa-ha-complaints-concerns	6
	Apply For Housing \| CESSA Housing Associationwww.cessaha.co.uk/housing/apply	6
	Contact the Charity \| CESSA Housing Associationwww.cessaha.co.uk/contact/charity	6
	ERROR 404 \| CESSA Housing Associationwww.cessaha.co.uk/error-404	6
	CESSAC Centres \| CESSA Housing Associationwww.cessaha.co.uk/cessac/centres	6
	Sketch of Head Office \| CESSA Housing Associationwww.cessaha.co.uk/slider/sketch-head-office	6
	Contact the Housing Association \| CESSA Housing Associationwww.cessaha.co.uk/contact/housing-association	6
	Additional Support Services \| CESSA Housing Associationwww.cessaha.co.uk/additional-support-services	6

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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