Contact - Fairoak Housing Association

Our Tenants - Fairoak Housing Association

Principles and Objectives - Fairoak Housing Association

Our Properties - Fairoak Housing Association

Recruitment - Fairoak Housing Association

Supported Living Information - Fairoak Housing Association

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Testimonials - Fairoak Housing Association

Page not found - Fairoak Housing Association

Friends of Fairoak - Fairoak Housing Association

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

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	Title / URL	Issues
	Contact - Fairoak Housing Associationwww.fairoakhousing.co.uk/contact/	2
	Our Tenants - Fairoak Housing Associationwww.fairoakhousing.co.uk/our-tenants/	2
	Principles and Objectives - Fairoak Housing Associationwww.fairoakhousing.co.uk/principes-and-objectives/	2
	Our Properties - Fairoak Housing Associationwww.fairoakhousing.co.uk/our-properties/	2
	Recruitment - Fairoak Housing Associationwww.fairoakhousing.co.uk/recruitment/	2
	Supported Living Information - Fairoak Housing Associationwww.fairoakhousing.co.uk/information/	2
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.fairoakhousing.co.uk/	2
	Testimonials - Fairoak Housing Associationwww.fairoakhousing.co.uk/testimonials/	2
	Page not found - Fairoak Housing Associationwww.fairoakhousing.co.uk/invented-url-for-404-page	2
	Friends of Fairoak - Fairoak Housing Associationwww.fairoakhousing.co.uk/friends-of-fairoak/	2

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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