Academic Programs - Truckee Meadows Community College

Elizabeth Sturm Library - Truckee Meadows Community College

Career Hub - Truckee Meadows Community College

Applied Technology - Truckee Meadows Community College

WebCollege - Truckee Meadows Community College

Counseling Center - Truckee Meadows Community College

Veteran Services Office - Truckee Meadows Community College

Admissions and Records - Truckee Meadows Community College

Tutoring and Learning Center - Truckee Meadows Community College

Academic Advising - Truckee Meadows Community College

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
Academic Programs - Truckee Meadows Community Collegewww.tmcc.edu/academics	98
Elizabeth Sturm Library - Truckee Meadows Community Collegewww.tmcc.edu/library	12
Career Hub - Truckee Meadows Community Collegewww.tmcc.edu/career-hub	7
Applied Technology - Truckee Meadows Community Collegewww.tmcc.edu/applied-technology	6
WebCollege - Truckee Meadows Community Collegewww.tmcc.edu/webcollege	6
Counseling Center - Truckee Meadows Community Collegewww.tmcc.edu/counseling	6
Veteran Services Office - Truckee Meadows Community Collegewww.tmcc.edu/veteran-services	6
Admissions and Records - Truckee Meadows Community Collegewww.tmcc.edu/admissions	4
Tutoring and Learning Center - Truckee Meadows Community Collegewww.tmcc.edu/tutoring	3
Academic Advising - Truckee Meadows Community Collegewww.tmcc.edu/advising	3

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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