Canadian Grain Commission

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Contact us

Corporate reports

Trade memos (Memoranda of the Canadian Grain Commission)

Forms

Grain safety and identity preservation

Grain quality

Policies and procedures

An `<img>` element inside a link must not specify alternative text that duplicates the
content of a text link inside or beside it.

For example, this code should be avoided:

```html
<a href="/apple">
    <img src="apple.png" alt="Apple">
    Apple
</a>
```

Accessible technologies will tend to see this as "Apple Apple". The correct behaviour is to
specify either a null (empty) `alt` attribute:

```html
<a href="/apple">
    <img src="apple.png" alt="">
    Apple
</a>
```

or to hide the image via `aria-hidden`:

```html
<a href="/apple">
    <img src="apple.png" aria-hidden="true">
    Apple
</a>
```

# Learn more

Read about [Technique H2](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H2) on how to combine
an adjacent image and texts links. 

See the [WAI Tutorial on decorative images](https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/decorative/).

img-duplicate-alt

December 2025

November 2025

Title / URL	Issues
Canadian Grain Commissionwww.grainscanada.gc.ca/en/	7
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.grainscanada.gc.ca/en/	7
Canadian Grain Commissionwww.grainscanada.gc.ca/en/?wbdisable=true	5
Contact uswww.grainscanada.gc.ca/en/about-us/contact-us/	2
Corporate reportswww.grainscanada.gc.ca/en/about-us/reports/	2
Trade memos (Memoranda of the Canadian Grain Commission)www.grainscanada.gc.ca/en/industry/memos/	2
Formswww.grainscanada.gc.ca/en/resources/forms/	2
Grain safety and identity preservationwww.grainscanada.gc.ca/en/industry/grain-safety/	2
Grain qualitywww.grainscanada.gc.ca/en/grain-quality/	2
Policies and procedureswww.grainscanada.gc.ca/en/industry/policy/	2

Avoid alternative text that is the same as adjacent text

Canadian Grain Commission

Where this issue has occurred