Who We Are | Descartes

Web EDI | Descartes

Duty and Tariff Data | Descartes

Ecommerce Shipping & Fulfillment | Descartes

Home | Descartes

Peppol | Descartes

Integrated EDI | Descartes

Industries | Descartes

B2B Connectivity and Messaging | Descartes

Page not found | Descartes

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

June 2025

May 2025

Descartes Systems Group Inc.

	Title / URL	Issues
	Who We Are \| Descarteswww.descartes.com/who-we-are	23
	Web EDI \| Descarteswww.descartes.com/solutions/b2b-connectivity-and-messaging/web-edi	23
	Duty and Tariff Data \| Descarteswww.descartes.com/solutions/global-trade-intelligence/duty-and-tariff-data	23
	Ecommerce Shipping & Fulfillment \| Descarteswww.descartes.com/solutions/ecommerce-shipping-fulfillment	23
	Home \| Descarteswww.descartes.com/home	23
	Peppol \| Descarteswww.descartes.com/solutions/b2b-connectivity-and-messaging/peppol	23
	Integrated EDI \| Descarteswww.descartes.com/solutions/b2b-connectivity-and-messaging/integrated-edi	23
	Industries \| Descarteswww.descartes.com/industries	23
	B2B Connectivity and Messaging \| Descarteswww.descartes.com/solutions/b2b-connectivity-and-messaging	23
	Page not found \| Descarteswww.descartes.com/invented-url-for-404-page	23

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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