Contact Us | Nhulunbuy Corporation

News | Nhulunbuy Corporation

Building & Development | Nhulunbuy Corporation

Citizenship Ceremonies | Nhulunbuy Corporation

Welcome to Nhulunbuy Corporation

Snap Send Solve | Nhulunbuy Corporation

Community Directory | Nhulunbuy Corporation

Forms and permit applications | Nhulunbuy Corporation

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Waste Facility | Nhulunbuy Corporation

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
Contact Us \| Nhulunbuy Corporationwww.ncl.net.au/contact-us	19
News \| Nhulunbuy Corporationwww.ncl.net.au/our-community/news	19
Building & Development \| Nhulunbuy Corporationwww.ncl.net.au/our-services/building-development	19
Citizenship Ceremonies \| Nhulunbuy Corporationwww.ncl.net.au/our-community/citizenship	19
Welcome to Nhulunbuy Corporationwww.ncl.net.au/	19
Snap Send Solve \| Nhulunbuy Corporationwww.ncl.net.au/snap-send-solve	19
Community Directory \| Nhulunbuy Corporationwww.ncl.net.au/our-community/community-directory	19
Forms and permit applications \| Nhulunbuy Corporationwww.ncl.net.au/forms-and-permit-applications	19
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.ncl.net.au/	19
Waste Facility \| Nhulunbuy Corporationwww.ncl.net.au/our-services/waste-facility	19

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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