0.4 Incident or crime | Norfolk Constabulary

Proper Lock It | Norfolk Constabulary

Look what you did | Norfolk Constabulary

Custody | Norfolk Constabulary

Join us | Norfolk Constabulary

Hide Your Stuff | Norfolk Constabulary

Steven Newing | Norfolk Constabulary

Property Marking | Norfolk Constabulary

Too good to be true | Norfolk Constabulary

Police Officer | Norfolk Constabulary

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

May 2024

April 2024

Norfolk Constabulary

Title / URL	Issues
0.4 Incident or crime \| Norfolk Constabularywww.norfolk.police.uk/contact-us/04-incident-or-crime	5
Proper Lock It \| Norfolk Constabularywww.norfolk.police.uk/news/campaigns/proper-lock-it	3
Look what you did \| Norfolk Constabularywww.norfolk.police.uk/news/campaigns/look-what-you-did	3
Custody \| Norfolk Constabularywww.norfolk.police.uk/node/34/custody	3
Join us \| Norfolk Constabularywww.norfolk.police.uk/join-us	3
Hide Your Stuff \| Norfolk Constabularywww.norfolk.police.uk/news/campaigns/hide-your-stuff	3
Steven Newing \| Norfolk Constabularywww.norfolk.police.uk/news/cold-cases/steven-newing	3
Property Marking \| Norfolk Constabularywww.norfolk.police.uk/property-marking	3
Too good to be true \| Norfolk Constabularywww.norfolk.police.uk/news/campaigns/too-good-be-true	3
Police Officer \| Norfolk Constabularywww.norfolk.police.uk/join-us/police-officer	3

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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