Waste Connections | Trash Pickup Services

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Top-Tier Customer Service | Waste Connections Support

Intermodal Container Service and Sales | Waste Connections

Missed a Collection? | Report Missed Pickups to Waste Connections

Leading Commercial Waste Management Solutions

Manufacturing Waste Solutions | Waste Collection Services

Executive Officers | The Minds Behind Waste Connections' Success

Retail Waste Collection Services | Waste Connections

Dumpster Sizes & Dimensions Guide | Commercial & Residential

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

June 2024

May 2024

Waste Connections Inc.

Title / URL	Issues
Waste Connections \| Trash Pickup Serviceswww.wasteconnections.com/	5
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.wasteconnections.com/	5
Top-Tier Customer Service \| Waste Connections Supportwww.wasteconnections.com/contact-us/	3
Intermodal Container Service and Sales \| Waste Connectionswww.wasteconnections.com/intermodal-containers/	3
Missed a Collection? \| Report Missed Pickups to Waste Connectionswww.wasteconnections.com/customer-service-missed-pick-up/	3
Leading Commercial Waste Management Solutionswww.wasteconnections.com/services/commercial/	3
Manufacturing Waste Solutions \| Waste Collection Serviceswww.wasteconnections.com/manufacturing/	3
Executive Officers \| The Minds Behind Waste Connections' Successwww.wasteconnections.com/company/executive-officers/	3
Retail Waste Collection Services \| Waste Connectionswww.wasteconnections.com/retail/	3
Dumpster Sizes & Dimensions Guide \| Commercial & Residentialwww.wasteconnections.com/dumpster-sizes/	3

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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