Annual Reports | City of Tulare

Utility Billing | City of Tulare

Planning Department | City of Tulare

Transit | City of Tulare

Police | City of Tulare

Business Licenses | City of Tulare

Housing & Grants Services | City of Tulare

City of Tulare | Home

Master Fee Schedule | City of Tulare

City Council | City of Tulare

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

August 2025

July 2025

City of Tulare

	Title / URL	Issues
	Annual Reports \| City of Tularewww.tulare.ca.gov/government/departments/administration/city-manager-s-office/annual-reports	3
	Utility Billing \| City of Tularewww.tulare.ca.gov/government/departments/finance/utility-billing	3
	Planning Department \| City of Tularewww.tulare.ca.gov/government/departments/community-development/planning	3
	Transit \| City of Tularewww.tulare.ca.gov/residents/transit	3
	Police \| City of Tularewww.tulare.ca.gov/government/departments/police	3
	Business Licenses \| City of Tularewww.tulare.ca.gov/government/departments/finance/business-licenses	3
	Housing & Grants Services \| City of Tularewww.tulare.ca.gov/government/departments/community-development/housing-grants-services	3
	City of Tulare \| Homewww.tulare.ca.gov/	1
	Master Fee Schedule \| City of Tularewww.tulare.ca.gov/government/departments/finance/master-fee-schedule	1
	City Council \| City of Tularewww.tulare.ca.gov/government/city-council	1

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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