About RIT | RIT

Research at RIT | RIT

Visit | RIT

History of RIT | RIT

Our Global Campuses | RIT

Opportunities for Deaf and Hard-of-hearing | RIT

Careers at RIT | RIT

Contact | RIT

Colleges | RIT

Rochester Institute of Technology | RIT

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

November 2024

October 2024

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Title / URL	Issues
About RIT \| RITwww.rit.edu/about-rit	3
Research at RIT \| RITwww.rit.edu/research	3
Visit \| RITwww.rit.edu/visit	3
History of RIT \| RITwww.rit.edu/history-rit	2
Our Global Campuses \| RITwww.rit.edu/campuses	2
Opportunities for Deaf and Hard-of-hearing \| RITwww.rit.edu/admissions/dhh	2
Careers at RIT \| RITwww.rit.edu/careers	2
Contact \| RITwww.rit.edu/contact	2
Colleges \| RITwww.rit.edu/colleges	2
Rochester Institute of Technology \| RITwww.rit.edu/	2

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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