Human Resources | Columbus County, NC

Page not found | Columbus County, NC

Recreation | Columbus County, NC

Public Housing | Columbus County, NC

Commissioners | Columbus County, NC

2021 EMS Protocols | Columbus County, NC

District 2 | Columbus County, NC

District 3 | Columbus County, NC

Public Utilites | Columbus County, NC

District 4 | Columbus County, NC

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

January 2025

December 2024

Columbus County, North Carolina

Title / URL	Issues
Human Resources \| Columbus County, NCwww.columbusco.org/human-resources	11
Page not found \| Columbus County, NCwww.columbusco.org/invented-url-for-404-page	10
Recreation \| Columbus County, NCwww.columbusco.org/recreation	10
Public Housing \| Columbus County, NCwww.columbusco.org/public-housing	10
Commissioners \| Columbus County, NCwww.columbusco.org/commissioners	10
2021 EMS Protocols \| Columbus County, NCcolumbusco.org/2021-ems-protocols	10
District 2 \| Columbus County, NCwww.columbusco.org/district-2	10
District 3 \| Columbus County, NCwww.columbusco.org/district-3	10
Public Utilites \| Columbus County, NCwww.columbusco.org/public-utilites	10
District 4 \| Columbus County, NCwww.columbusco.org/district-4	10

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

Columbus County, North Carolina

Where this issue has occurred