Advising | Everett Community College

Online Student Support and Resources | Everett Community College

Class Schedule | Everett Community College

Diversity and Equity Center | Everett Community College

Visit Us at EvCC! | Everett Community College

Admissions and Registration Overview | Everett Community College

Student LIFE | Everett Community College

ctcLink at EvCC | Everett Community College

Center for Disability Services (The CDS Office) | Everett Community College

Majors and Programs | Everett Community College

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

Everett Community College

Title / URL	Issues
Advising \| Everett Community Collegewww.everettcc.edu/programs/arts/advising	3
Online Student Support and Resources \| Everett Community Collegewww.everettcc.edu/students/online	3
Class Schedule \| Everett Community Collegewww.everettcc.edu/classes/	3
Diversity and Equity Center \| Everett Community Collegewww.everettcc.edu/administration/equity-social-justice/diversity-and-equity-center	3
Visit Us at EvCC! \| Everett Community Collegewww.everettcc.edu/students/visit-us/	2
Admissions and Registration Overview \| Everett Community Collegewww.everettcc.edu/enrollment/	2
Student LIFE \| Everett Community Collegewww.everettcc.edu/students/sa/	2
ctcLink at EvCC \| Everett Community Collegewww.everettcc.edu/administration/college-services/ctclink	2
Center for Disability Services (The CDS Office) \| Everett Community Collegewww.everettcc.edu/students/cds/	2
Majors and Programs \| Everett Community Collegewww.everettcc.edu/programs/	2

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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