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Information för dig som är examensstuderande | Hanken

Meet our Alumni | Hanken

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Externt samarbete | Hanken

Bibliotek | Hanken

Forskning | Hanken

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Ansökan | Hanken

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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	Satsa på framtiden \| Hankenwww.hanken.fi/sv/externt-samarbete/fundraising	100
	Hankens IT-tjänster \| Hankenwww.hanken.fi/sv/it-tjanster	100
	Information för dig som är examensstuderande \| Hankenwww.hanken.fi/sv/studerande	100
	Meet our Alumni \| Hankenwww.hanken.fi/sv/node/35662	100
	Tervetuloa Hankenille! \| Hankenwww.hanken.fi/sv/suomeksi	100
	Externt samarbete \| Hankenwww.hanken.fi/sv/externt-samarbete	100
	Bibliotek \| Hankenwww.hanken.fi/sv/bibliotek	100
	Forskning \| Hankenwww.hanken.fi/sv/forskning	100
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.hanken.fi/sv	100
	Ansökan \| Hankenwww.hanken.fi/sv/sok-till-hanken/ansokan	100

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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