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Planning and Zoning - King and Queen County

Fire Marshal - King and Queen County

Business News - King and Queen County

Finance - King and Queen County

Treasurer’s Office - King and Queen County

Payments - King and Queen County

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

January 2025

December 2024

King and Queen County, Virginia

Title / URL	Issues
First time visit: View without clicking anythingkingandqueenco.net/	13
Home - King and Queen Countykingandqueenco.net/	13
Services - King and Queen Countykingandqueenco.net/services/	5
Social Services - King and Queen Countykingandqueenco.net/social-services/	5
Planning and Zoning - King and Queen Countykingandqueenco.net/planning-and-zoning/	5
Fire Marshal - King and Queen Countykingandqueenco.net/fire-marshal/	5
Business News - King and Queen Countykingandqueenco.net/business-news/	5
Finance - King and Queen Countykingandqueenco.net/finance/	5
Treasurer’s Office - King and Queen Countykingandqueenco.net/treasurers-office/	5
Payments - King and Queen Countykingandqueenco.net/payments/	5

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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