Commercial Retail Services | CBRE

Hotels | CBRE

Sales and Consulting Opportunities | CBRE

Evolving Workforces | CBRE

Future Cities | CBRE

Insights & Research | CBRE

Corporate Careers in Commercial Real Estate | CBRE

Plan, Lease & Occupy | CBRE

Creating Resilience in Business & Real Estate | CBRE

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

March 2026

February 2026

CBRE Group

Title / URL	Issues
Commercial Retail Services \| CBREwww.cbre.com/services/property-types/retail	34
Hotels \| CBREwww.cbre.com/services/property-types/hotels	17
Sales and Consulting Opportunities \| CBREwww.cbre.com/careers/sales-careers	8
Evolving Workforces \| CBREwww.cbre.com/insights/evolving-workforces	7
Future Cities \| CBREwww.cbre.com/insights/future-cities	6
Insights & Research \| CBREwww.cbre.com/insights	6
Corporate Careers in Commercial Real Estate \| CBREwww.cbre.com/careers/corporate-careers	6
Plan, Lease & Occupy \| CBREwww.cbre.com/services/plan-lease-and-occupy	5
Creating Resilience in Business & Real Estate \| CBREwww.cbre.com/insights/creating-resilience	5

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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