Administration | Newberry County, SC

Page not found | Newberry County, SC

Contact Us | Newberry County, SC

Delinquent Tax | Newberry County, SC

Emergency Management | Newberry County, SC

Publications | Newberry County, SC

Attorney | Newberry County, SC

Finance | Newberry County, SC

Assessor | Newberry County, SC

Human Resources | Newberry County, SC

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

Newberry County, South Carolina

	Title / URL	Issues
	Administration \| Newberry County, SCwww.newberrycounty.gov/administration	48
	Page not found \| Newberry County, SCwww.newberrycounty.gov/invented-url-for-404-page	48
	Contact Us \| Newberry County, SCwww.newberrycounty.gov/contact-us	48
	Delinquent Tax \| Newberry County, SCwww.newberrycounty.gov/delinquent-tax	48
	Emergency Management \| Newberry County, SCwww.newberrycounty.gov/emergency-management	48
	Publications \| Newberry County, SCwww.newberrycounty.gov/publications	48
	Attorney \| Newberry County, SCwww.newberrycounty.gov/attorney	48
	Finance \| Newberry County, SCwww.newberrycounty.gov/finance	48
	Assessor \| Newberry County, SCwww.newberrycounty.gov/assessor	48
	Human Resources \| Newberry County, SCwww.newberrycounty.gov/human-resources	48

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

Newberry County, South Carolina

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