Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science - Concordia University

Rankings - Concordia University

Faculty of Arts and Science - Concordia University

50th Anniversary - Concordia University

Concordia University

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Faculty of Fine Arts - Concordia University

Université Concordia

Working at Concordia - Concordia University

Alumni & friends - Concordia University

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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January 2026

December 2025

Title / URL	Issues
Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science - Concordia Universitywww.concordia.ca/ginacody.html	10
Rankings - Concordia Universitywww.concordia.ca/about/rankings.html	9
Faculty of Arts and Science - Concordia Universitywww.concordia.ca/artsci.html	8
50th Anniversary - Concordia Universitywww.concordia.ca/50th.html	6
Concordia Universitywww.concordia.ca/	4
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.concordia.ca/	4
Faculty of Fine Arts - Concordia Universitywww.concordia.ca/finearts.html	4
Université Concordiawww.concordia.ca/fr.html	4
Working at Concordia - Concordia Universitywww.concordia.ca/hr/jobs.html	3
Alumni & friends - Concordia Universitywww.concordia.ca/alumni-friends.html	3

Avoid alternative text that is the same as adjacent text

Concordia University

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