Our Integrated Annual Report | Orange

Orange and the European Union | Orange

For digital equality | Orange

All our magazines | Orange

For a safer, more responsible digital world | Orange

For a responsible economy | Orange

Who are we? | Orange

Scientific Council | Orange

Non-financial information | Orange

Investors contacts | Orange

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
Our Integrated Annual Report \| Orangewww.orange.com/en/our-integrated-annual-report	10
Orange and the European Union \| Orangewww.orange.com/en/groupe/orange-bruxelles	5
For digital equality \| Orangewww.orange.com/en/digital-equality	2
All our magazines \| Orangewww.orange.com/en/magazines	2
For a safer, more responsible digital world \| Orangewww.orange.com/en/safer-digital-world	2
For a responsible economy \| Orangewww.orange.com/en/responsible-economy	2
Who are we? \| Orangewww.orange.com/en/group/overview/orange-group	1
Scientific Council \| Orangewww.orange.com/en/group/overview/scientific-council	1
Non-financial information \| Orangewww.orange.com/en/non-financial-information	1
Investors contacts \| Orangewww.orange.com/en/investors-contacts	1

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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