Strategy Statements - CCPC Business

Prioritisation principles | Competition and Consumer Protection Commission

Consumer Rights & Personal Finance - CCPC

Cartel whistleblowers - CCPC Business

Careers - CCPC Consumers

Financial education - CCPC Business

Help for business - CCPC Business

Speeches and presentations - CCPC Business

Governance - CCPC Business

Pawnbrokers - CCPC Business

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

February 2026

January 2026

Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC)

	Title / URL	Issues
	Strategy Statements - CCPC Businesswww.ccpc.ie/business/about/strategy-statements/	7
	Prioritisation principles \| Competition and Consumer Protection Commissionwww.ccpc.ie/business/about/decide-take-action/	6
	Consumer Rights & Personal Finance - CCPCwww.ccpc.ie/consumers/	6
	Cartel whistleblowers - CCPC Businesswww.ccpc.ie/business/contact/whistleblowers/	6
	Careers - CCPC Consumerswww.ccpc.ie/consumers/about/careers/	6
	Financial education - CCPC Businesswww.ccpc.ie/business/about/financial-education/	6
	Help for business - CCPC Businesswww.ccpc.ie/business/help-for-business/	6
	Speeches and presentations - CCPC Businesswww.ccpc.ie/business/news/speeches-presentations/	6
	Governance - CCPC Businesswww.ccpc.ie/business/about/governance/	6
	Pawnbrokers - CCPC Businesswww.ccpc.ie/business/help-for-business/pawnbrokers/	6

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC)

Where this issue has occurred