Café Conversations with Commissioners - El Paso County Colorado

El Paso County Public Meetings - El Paso County Colorado

El Paso County Partners with Nonprofit to Provide Free Archery Classes

2023 El Paso County Redistricting - El Paso County Colorado

EPC Ready - El Paso County Colorado

First time visit: View without clicking anything

News - El Paso County Colorado

Page not found - El Paso County Colorado

Watch, Stream, and Listen - El Paso County Colorado

El Paso County Department Listings - El Paso County Colorado

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

November 2025

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El Paso County, Colorado

	Title / URL	Issues
	Café Conversations with Commissioners - El Paso County Coloradowww.elpasoco.com/cafe-conversations/	2
	El Paso County Public Meetings - El Paso County Coloradowww.elpasoco.com/public-meetings/	2
	El Paso County Partners with Nonprofit to Provide Free Archery Classeswww.elpasoco.com/free-archery-classes/	2
	2023 El Paso County Redistricting - El Paso County Coloradowww.elpasoco.com/redistricting/	2
	EPC Ready - El Paso County Coloradowww.elpasoco.com/ready/	2
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.elpasoco.com/	2
	News - El Paso County Coloradowww.elpasoco.com/news/	2
	Page not found - El Paso County Coloradowww.elpasoco.com/invented-url-for-404-page	2
	Watch, Stream, and Listen - El Paso County Coloradowww.elpasoco.com/watch-stream-listen/	2
	El Paso County Department Listings - El Paso County Coloradowww.elpasoco.com/departments/	2

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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