Banking & financial solutions companies | UBS Switzerland

Banking and financial solutions for private clients | UBS Switzerland

Planning and managing wealth with UBS | UBS Switzerland

Investor Relations | UBS Global

UBS Asset Management | UBS Global

About UBS Asset Management | UBS Global

Funds & Prices - UBS Asset Management | UBS Global

Our firm | UBS Global

Global Wealth Management | UBS Global

Investment Bank | UBS Global

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

August 2025

July 2025

	Title / URL	Issues
	Banking & financial solutions companies \| UBS Switzerlandwww.ubs.com/ch/en/services/corporates.html	16
	Banking and financial solutions for private clients \| UBS Switzerlandwww.ubs.com/ch/en/services/private.html	16
	Planning and managing wealth with UBS \| UBS Switzerlandwww.ubs.com/ch/en/services/wealth-management.html	14
	Investor Relations \| UBS Globalwww.ubs.com/global/en/investor-relations.html	12
	UBS Asset Management \| UBS Globalwww.ubs.com/global/en/assetmanagement.html	11
	About UBS Asset Management \| UBS Globalwww.ubs.com/global/en/assetmanagement/about.html	11
	Funds & Prices - UBS Asset Management \| UBS Globalwww.ubs.com/global/en/assetmanagement/funds.html	11
	Our firm \| UBS Globalwww.ubs.com/global/en/our-firm.html	9
	Global Wealth Management \| UBS Globalwww.ubs.com/global/en/wealthmanagement.html	7
	Investment Bank \| UBS Globalwww.ubs.com/global/en/investment-bank.html	7

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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