SpartanNash: We deliver the ingredients for a better life.

Grocery Retail - SpartanNash Company

Become a Grocery Wholesale Customer - SpartanNash Company

Wholesale Food Distribution - SpartanNash Company

Page not found - SpartanNash Company

First time visit: View without clicking anything

SpartanNash OwnBrands - SpartanNash Company

Quick Links - SpartanNash Company

Wholesale Grocery Distributor - SpartanNash Company

Corporate Responsibility - SpartanNash Company

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
	SpartanNash: We deliver the ingredients for a better life.www.spartannash.com/	12
	Grocery Retail - SpartanNash Companywww.spartannash.com/grocery-retail/	12
	Become a Grocery Wholesale Customer - SpartanNash Companywww.spartannash.com/wholesale/retailer/	12
	Wholesale Food Distribution - SpartanNash Companywww.spartannash.com/wholesale/	12
	Page not found - SpartanNash Companywww.spartannash.com/invented-url-for-404-page	12
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.spartannash.com/	12
	SpartanNash OwnBrands - SpartanNash Companywww.spartannash.com/grocery-retail/brands/	12
	Quick Links - SpartanNash Companywww.spartannash.com/quick-links/	12
	Wholesale Grocery Distributor - SpartanNash Companywww.spartannash.com/about/	12
	Corporate Responsibility - SpartanNash Companywww.spartannash.com/corp-responsibility/	12

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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