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Office of President Jonathan Holloway | Rutgers University

Rutgers Reputation and Excellence

Academics | Rutgers University

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Information for Faculty and Staff | Rutgers University

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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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Rutgers Today \| Rutgers Universitywww.rutgers.edu/news	3
Office of President Jonathan Holloway \| Rutgers Universitywww.rutgers.edu/president	2
Rutgers Reputation and Excellencewww.rutgers.edu/excellence	2
Academics \| Rutgers Universitywww.rutgers.edu/academics	2
Page Not Found \| Rutgers Universitywww.rutgers.edu/invented-url-for-404-page	2
Rutgers University–Camden \| Rutgers Universitywww.rutgers.edu/camden	2
Our Structure \| Rutgers Universitywww.rutgers.edu/about/structure	2
Information for Faculty and Staff \| Rutgers Universitywww.rutgers.edu/info/faculty-staff	2
The Rutgers University Experiencewww.rutgers.edu/experience	2
Great Things to Know About Rutgers Universitywww.rutgers.edu/greatthings	2

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