Life sciences | CGI.com

Alliances | CGI.com

Media center | CGI.com

Government | CGI.com

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Page not found | CGI.com

Key topics | CGI.com

CGI blogs | CGI.com

Cybersecurity | CGI.com

Contact us | CGI.com

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.

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August 2025

July 2025

CGI Inc.

	Title / URL	Issues
	Life sciences \| CGI.comwww.cgi.com/en/life-sciences	16
	Alliances \| CGI.comwww.cgi.com/en/alliances	12
	Media center \| CGI.comwww.cgi.com/en/mediacenter	12
	Government \| CGI.comwww.cgi.com/en/government	12
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.cgi.com/en	12
	Page not found \| CGI.comwww.cgi.com/invented-url-for-404-page	12
	Key topics \| CGI.comwww.cgi.com/en/key-topics	12
	CGI blogs \| CGI.comwww.cgi.com/en/blogs	12
	Cybersecurity \| CGI.comwww.cgi.com/en/cybersecurity	12
	Contact us \| CGI.comwww.cgi.com/en/contact-us	12

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