Rates and other Payments | Karratha Council

Travel | City of Karratha

Youth services | City of Karratha

Building and land | City of Karratha

Libraries | City of Karratha

Events | City of Karratha

Environment | City of Karratha

Cemeteries | City of Karratha

Arts and culture | City of Karratha

Contact us | City of Karratha

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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City of Karratha

	Title / URL	Issues
	Rates and other Payments \| Karratha Councilwww.karratha.wa.gov.au/community/online-services	66
	Travel \| City of Karrathawww.karratha.wa.gov.au/community/travel	66
	Youth services \| City of Karrathawww.karratha.wa.gov.au/community/youth-services	66
	Building and land \| City of Karrathawww.karratha.wa.gov.au/building-and-land	66
	Libraries \| City of Karrathawww.karratha.wa.gov.au/libraries-0	66
	Events \| City of Karrathawww.karratha.wa.gov.au/community/events	66
	Environment \| City of Karrathawww.karratha.wa.gov.au/environment	66
	Cemeteries \| City of Karrathawww.karratha.wa.gov.au/community/cemeteries	66
	Arts and culture \| City of Karrathawww.karratha.wa.gov.au/arts-and-culture	66
	Contact us \| City of Karrathawww.karratha.wa.gov.au/contact-us-2	66

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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