The Office of Economic Development | City of Corona

Fire Department | City of Corona

City of Corona | Home

Tom Richins | Staff | City of Corona

Contact Us | City of Corona

Mayor & City Council | City of Corona

Chad Williardson | Staff | City of Corona

Jim Steiner | Staff | City of Corona

Jacque Casillas | Staff | City of Corona

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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

October 2025

September 2025

City of Corona

	Title / URL	Issues
	The Office of Economic Development \| City of Coronawww.coronaca.gov/departments/economic-development	6
	Fire Department \| City of Coronawww.coronaca.gov/departments/fire	4
	City of Corona \| Homewww.coronaca.gov/	4
	Tom Richins \| Staff \| City of Coronawww.coronaca.gov/staff/tom-richins	4
	Contact Us \| City of Coronawww.coronaca.gov/about-us/contact-us	4
	Mayor & City Council \| City of Coronawww.coronaca.gov/about-us/mayor-city-council	4
	Chad Williardson \| Staff \| City of Coronawww.coronaca.gov/staff/chad-williardson	4
	Jim Steiner \| Staff \| City of Coronawww.coronaca.gov/staff/jim-steiner	4
	Jacque Casillas \| Staff \| City of Coronawww.coronaca.gov/staff/jacque-casillas	4
	Not Foundwww.coronaca.gov/invented-url-for-404-page	4

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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