News | Hiscox Group

UK Graduate programme | Hiscox Group

About Hiscox | Hiscox Group

Sustainability | Hiscox Group

Learning and development | Hiscox Group

Our management | Hiscox Group

Early Careers | Hiscox Group

Why choose a career at Hiscox? | Hiscox Group

Debt investors | Hiscox Group

Our brand | 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

October 2025

September 2025

Hiscox

	Title / URL	Issues
	News \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/news	31
	UK Graduate programme \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/uk-graduate-programme	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
	Our management \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/about-hiscox/management	31
	Early Careers \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/careers/early-careers	31
	Why choose a career at Hiscox? \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/careers/working-at-hiscox	31
	Debt investors \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/investors/debt-investors	31
	Our brand \| Hiscox Groupwww.hiscoxgroup.com/about-hiscox/our-brand	31

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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