About Us - Horton Housing

Welcome to your new home - Horton Housing

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Recruitment video 2024 - Horton Housing

Together with Tenants - Horton Housing

Our Awards - Horton Housing

Keep Safe - Horton Housing

News Archives - Horton Housing

My tenancy - Horton Housing

Health and Wellbeing - Horton Housing

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
	About Us - Horton Housinghortonhousing.co.uk/about-us/	3
	Welcome to your new home - Horton Housinghortonhousing.co.uk/welcome-to-your-new-home/	3
	First time visit: View without clicking anythinghortonhousing.co.uk/	3
	Recruitment video 2024 - Horton Housinghortonhousing.co.uk/recruitment-video-2024/	3
	Together with Tenants - Horton Housinghortonhousing.co.uk/together-with-tenants/	3
	Our Awards - Horton Housinghortonhousing.co.uk/about-us/awards/	3
	Keep Safe - Horton Housinghortonhousing.co.uk/keep-safe/	3
	News Archives - Horton Housinghortonhousing.co.uk/category/news/	3
	My tenancy - Horton Housinghortonhousing.co.uk/my-tenancy/	3
	Health and Wellbeing - Horton Housinghortonhousing.co.uk/health-and-wellbeing/	3

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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