Our management | Hiscox Group

Business structure | Hiscox Group

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Our employee networks | Hiscox Group

About Hiscox | Hiscox Group

Sustainability | Hiscox Group

Learning and development | Hiscox Group

Page not found | Hiscox Group

Our brand | Hiscox Group

Life at Hiscox | 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

June 2025

May 2025

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Title / URL	Issues
Our management \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/about-hiscox/management	31
Business structure \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/about-hiscox/structure	31
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.hiscoxgroup.com/	31
Our employee networks \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/our-employee-networks	31
About Hiscox \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/about-hiscox	31
Sustainability \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/sustainability	31
Learning and development \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/careers/development	31
Page not found \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/invented-url-for-404-page	31
Our brand \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/about-hiscox/our-brand	31
Life at Hiscox \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/careers/hiscox-life	31

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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