Alumnae/i - Chestnut Hill College

Athletics - Chestnut Hill College

Prospective Students - Chestnut Hill College

2025 Commencement - Chestnut Hill College

History and College Seal - Chestnut Hill College

Page not found - Chestnut Hill College

Web Accessibility - Chestnut Hill College

Give - Chestnut Hill College

Event Rentals - Chestnut Hill College

Programs Archive - Chestnut Hill 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
	Alumnae/i - Chestnut Hill Collegewww.chc.edu/alumnae-i/	2
	Athletics - Chestnut Hill Collegewww.chc.edu/athletics/	2
	Prospective Students - Chestnut Hill Collegewww.chc.edu/prospective-students/	2
	2025 Commencement - Chestnut Hill Collegewww.chc.edu/student-life/commencement/	2
	History and College Seal - Chestnut Hill Collegewww.chc.edu/about/history/	2
	Page not found - Chestnut Hill Collegewww.chc.edu/invented-url-for-404-page	2
	Web Accessibility - Chestnut Hill Collegewww.chc.edu/web-accessibility/	2
	Give - Chestnut Hill Collegewww.chc.edu/give/	2
	Event Rentals - Chestnut Hill Collegewww.chc.edu/events-rentals/	2
	Programs Archive - Chestnut Hill Collegewww.chc.edu/academics/programs/	2

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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