Improving Your Homes – Newham Council

What can you do with an empty property? – Empty Properties – Newham Council

Libraries, arts and culture – Newham Council

Contact and information – Newham Council

Air quality in Newham – Newham Council

Services starting with J – Newham Council

Latest news – Newham Council

Privacy and cookies – Newham Council

What waste to put in what bin – Your bins and what goes in each one – Newham Council

Services starting with I – Newham 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 2026

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London Borough of Newham Council

	Title / URL	Issues
	Improving Your Homes – Newham Councilwww.newham.gov.uk/ImprovingYourHomes	3
	What can you do with an empty property? – Empty Properties – Newham Councilwww.newham.gov.uk/landlords-newham/empty-properties/2	2
	Libraries, arts and culture – Newham Councilwww.newham.gov.uk/libraries-arts-culture	2
	Contact and information – Newham Councilwww.newham.gov.uk/contact-information	2
	Air quality in Newham – Newham Councilwww.newham.gov.uk/public-health-safety/air-quality-newham/1	2
	Services starting with J – Newham Councilwww.newham.gov.uk/a-to-z/J	2
	Latest news – Newham Councilwww.newham.gov.uk/news	2
	Privacy and cookies – Newham Councilwww.newham.gov.uk/contact-information/privacy-cookies/1	2
	What waste to put in what bin – Your bins and what goes in each one – Newham Councilwww.newham.gov.uk/rubbish-recycling-waste/bins-goes-one/1	2
	Services starting with I – Newham Councilwww.newham.gov.uk/a-to-z/I	2

Avoid alternative text that is the same as adjacent text

London Borough of Newham Council

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