Policies & Governance - West Tamar Council

Annual Plans & Performance Reports - West Tamar Council

Community Plans - West Tamar Council

Strategic Plan - West Tamar Council

By-Laws - West Tamar Council

Business Grants - West Tamar Council

Recreation Plan - West Tamar Council

News & Media - West Tamar Council

Governance - West Tamar Council

Trails Strategy - West Tamar Council

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

July 2025

June 2025

West Tamar Council

Title / URL	Issues
Policies & Governance - West Tamar Councilwww.wtc.tas.gov.au/policies-governance/	44
Annual Plans & Performance Reports - West Tamar Councilwww.wtc.tas.gov.au/annual-plan/	24
Community Plans - West Tamar Councilwww.wtc.tas.gov.au/community-plans/	16
Strategic Plan - West Tamar Councilwww.wtc.tas.gov.au/strategic-plan/	4
By-Laws - West Tamar Councilwww.wtc.tas.gov.au/by-laws/	3
Business Grants - West Tamar Councilwww.wtc.tas.gov.au/business-grants/	2
Recreation Plan - West Tamar Councilwww.wtc.tas.gov.au/recreation-plan/	1
News & Media - West Tamar Councilwww.wtc.tas.gov.au/news/	1
Governance - West Tamar Councilwww.wtc.tas.gov.au/council/governance/	1
Trails Strategy - West Tamar Councilwww.wtc.tas.gov.au/trails-strategy/	1

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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