Polling District, Place and Station review – City of York Council

Council homes – City of York Council

Save money by saving energy – City of York Council

Web browser support – City of York Council

Vote by post – City of York Council

Elections – City of York Council

Wards – City of York Council

Affordable home ownership – City of York Council

The street naming process – City of York Council

Contact ICT Security – City of York Council

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/).

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February 2025

January 2025

City of York Council

Title / URL	Issues
Polling District, Place and Station review – City of York Councilwww.york.gov.uk/PollingReview	2
Council homes – City of York Councilwww.york.gov.uk/CouncilHomes	2
Save money by saving energy – City of York Councilwww.york.gov.uk/EnergyEfficiency	2
Web browser support – City of York Councilwww.york.gov.uk/WebBrowserSupport	2
Vote by post – City of York Councilwww.york.gov.uk/VoteByPost	2
Elections – City of York Councilwww.york.gov.uk/ElectionsInYork	2
Wards – City of York Councilwww.york.gov.uk/wards	2
Affordable home ownership – City of York Councilwww.york.gov.uk/OwnAffordableHome	2
The street naming process – City of York Councilwww.york.gov.uk/StreetNaming	2
Contact ICT Security – City of York Councilwww.york.gov.uk/security	2

Avoid alternative text that is the same as adjacent text

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