Insurance Quotes | Get a $150 eGift Card | Westpac

Personal loans | Westpac

Business Bank Accounts | Westpac

Business credit cards | Westpac

Home loan comparison, calculators and guides | Westpac

Bank Accounts - Everyday Banking & Savings | Westpac

Commercial & Industry Banking | Westpac

Westpac Online and Mobile Banking | Westpac

Loans and finance | Westpac

Business Term Deposit - Fixed term savings account | 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

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Westpac Banking Corporation

	Title / URL	Issues
	Insurance Quotes \| Get a $150 eGift Card \| Westpacwww.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/insurance/	14
	Personal loans \| Westpacwww.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/personal-loans/	13
	Business Bank Accounts \| Westpacwww.westpac.com.au/business-banking/bank-accounts/	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
	Bank Accounts - Everyday Banking & Savings \| Westpacwww.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/bank-accounts/	9
	Commercial & Industry Banking \| Westpacwww.westpac.com.au/business-banking/industries/	9
	Westpac Online and Mobile Banking \| Westpacwww.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/online-banking/	7
	Loans and finance \| Westpacwww.westpac.com.au/business-banking/loans-finance/	7
	Business Term Deposit - Fixed term savings account \| Westpacwww.westpac.com.au/business-banking/savings-accounts/term-deposits/	6

Combine adjacent links with the same destination

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