Hiscox hooks new Line Underwriter for D&O | Hiscox Group

Risk management | Hiscox Group

Modern Slavery Act | Hiscox Group

Press releases | Hiscox Group

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Image gallery | Hiscox Group

Q3 2022 trading statement | Hiscox Group

Investors | Hiscox Group

Alert service | Hiscox Group

Lloyd's reporting | Hiscox Group

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

September 2025

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Title / URL	Issues
Hiscox hooks new Line Underwriter for D&O \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/news/press-releases/2021/29-11-21	36
Risk management \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/about-hiscox/risk-management	36
Modern Slavery Act \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/modern-slavery-act	36
Press releases \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/news/press-releases	36
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.hiscoxgroup.com/	36
Image gallery \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/news/image-library	36
Q3 2022 trading statement \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/news/press-releases/2022/02-11-22	36
Investors \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/investors	36
Alert service \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/site-tools/alert-service	36
Lloyd's reporting \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/investors/lloyds-reporting	36

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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