Insurance | Quotes for Car, Home Insurance & more | Westpac

Business credit cards | Westpac

Home loan comparison, calculators and guides | Westpac

Business Bank Accounts | Westpac

Commercial & Industry Banking | Westpac

Personal loans | Westpac

Startup Business Hub | Westpac

I'd like to sign in to... | Westpac

Business Term Deposit - Fixed term savings account | Westpac

Trade with Australia’s Investing Platform of the Year | Westpac

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

February 2026

January 2026

Westpac Banking Corporation

	Title / URL	Issues
	Insurance \| Quotes for Car, Home Insurance & more \| Westpacwww.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/insurance/	12
	Business credit cards \| Westpacwww.westpac.com.au/business-banking/credit-cards/	11
	Home loan comparison, calculators and guides \| Westpacwww.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/home-loans/	11
	Business Bank Accounts \| Westpacwww.westpac.com.au/business-banking/bank-accounts/	9
	Commercial & Industry Banking \| Westpacwww.westpac.com.au/business-banking/industries/	9
	Personal loans \| Westpacwww.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/personal-loans/	8
	Startup Business Hub \| Westpacwww.westpac.com.au/business-banking/startup-hub/	8
	I'd like to sign in to... \| Westpacwww.westpac.com.au/all-online-services/	7
	Business Term Deposit - Fixed term savings account \| Westpacwww.westpac.com.au/business-banking/savings-accounts/term-deposits/	6
	Trade with Australia’s Investing Platform of the Year \| Westpacwww.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/share-trading/	5

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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