About the Library | SUNY Morrisville

Get Help | SUNY Morrisville

Library | SUNY Morrisville

Norwich | SUNY Morrisville

Norwich Campus Academic Advising | Office/Department | SUNY Morrisville

Wellness with Kelly | Event | SUNY Morrisville

Norwich Campus Accessibility Services | Office/Department | SUNY Morrisville

College ID Services | Office/Department | SUNY Morrisville

Housing Costs & Rates | SUNY Morrisville

Nursing B.S. | Areas of Study | SUNY Morrisville

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

December 2024

November 2024

Morrisville State College

Title / URL	Issues
About the Library \| SUNY Morrisvillewww.morrisville.edu/about-library	65
Get Help \| SUNY Morrisvillewww.morrisville.edu/library/get-help	65
Library \| SUNY Morrisvillewww.morrisville.edu/library	65
Norwich \| SUNY Morrisvillewww.morrisville.edu/norwich	61
Norwich Campus Academic Advising \| Office/Department \| SUNY Morrisvillewww.morrisville.edu/norwich/academic-advising	61
Wellness with Kelly \| Event \| SUNY Morrisvillewww.morrisville.edu/events/wellness-kelly	61
Norwich Campus Accessibility Services \| Office/Department \| SUNY Morrisvillewww.morrisville.edu/norwich/accessibility-services	61
College ID Services \| Office/Department \| SUNY Morrisvillewww.morrisville.edu/college-id	6
Housing Costs & Rates \| SUNY Morrisvillewww.morrisville.edu/costs-aid/housing-costs-rates	6
Nursing B.S. \| Areas of Study \| SUNY Morrisvillewww.morrisville.edu/program/nursing-bs	6

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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