Emissions based charging – Newham Council

Our policies and procedures – Newham Council

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

Libraries, arts and culture – Newham Council

Happy Eid al Adha! – Newham Council

Contact and information – Newham Council

Services starting with J – Newham Council

Newsletter – Get involved – Newham Council

Latest news – Newham Council

Privacy and cookies – 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/).

img-duplicate-alt

December 2025

November 2025

London Borough of Newham Council

Title / URL	Issues
Emissions based charging – Newham Councilwww.newham.gov.uk/emissionsbasedcharging	2
Our policies and procedures – Newham Councilwww.newham.gov.uk/council/policies-procedures/1	2
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
Happy Eid al Adha! – Newham Councilwww.newham.gov.uk/news/article/1276/happy-eid-al-adha-	2
Contact and information – Newham Councilwww.newham.gov.uk/contact-information	2
Services starting with J – Newham Councilwww.newham.gov.uk/a-to-z/J	2
Newsletter – Get involved – Newham Councilwww.newham.gov.uk/50steps-getinvolved	2
Latest news – Newham Councilwww.newham.gov.uk/news	2
Privacy and cookies – Newham Councilwww.newham.gov.uk/contact-information/privacy-cookies/1	2

Avoid alternative text that is the same as adjacent text

London Borough of Newham Council

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