2020 Census: Complete Yours Today! | Orange County

Social Media and Applications | Orange County

First time visit: View without clicking anything

In Touch with the County | Orange County

Initiatives & Reports | Orange County

Communities & Neighborhoods | Orange County

Press Releases | Orange County

Orange County | Orange County

Info OC | Orange County

Medical Emergencies | Orange 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

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	Title / URL	Issues
	2020 Census: Complete Yours Today! \| Orange Countywww.ocgov.com/about-county/info-oc/census-2020	4
	Social Media and Applications \| Orange Countywww.ocgov.com/page/social-media-and-applications	3
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.ocgov.com/	3
	In Touch with the County \| Orange Countywww.ocgov.com/about-county/info-oc/touch-county	3
	Initiatives & Reports \| Orange Countywww.ocgov.com/about-county/info-oc/initiatives-reports	3
	Communities & Neighborhoods \| Orange Countywww.ocgov.com/about-county/info-oc/communities-neighborhoods	3
	Press Releases \| Orange Countywww.ocgov.com/press	3
	Orange County \| Orange Countywww.ocgov.com/	3
	Info OC \| Orange Countywww.ocgov.com/about-county/info-oc	3
	Medical Emergencies \| Orange Countywww.ocgov.com/about-county/emergency/medical-emergencies	3

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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