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Moving to Universal Credit | Sandwell Council

Vision 2030 | Sandwell Council

Supporting Sandwell | Sandwell 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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Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Title / URL	Issues
Sandwell Council Homepagewww.sandwell.gov.uk/	11
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.sandwell.gov.uk/	10
Town Grants \| Sandwell Councilwww.sandwell.gov.uk/TownGrants	8
Care and support for adults \| Sandwell Councilwww.sandwell.gov.uk/adults	7
Complaints, compliments and feedback \| Sandwell Councilwww.sandwell.gov.uk/complaints	5
Resilient Residents \| Sandwell Councilwww.sandwell.gov.uk/Resilientresidents	5
Warm Spaces \| Sandwell Councilwww.sandwell.gov.uk/warmspaces	4
Moving to Universal Credit \| Sandwell Councilwww.sandwell.gov.uk/changestobenefits	4
Vision 2030 \| Sandwell Councilwww.sandwell.gov.uk/Vision2030	2
Supporting Sandwell \| Sandwell Councilwww.sandwell.gov.uk/supportingsandwell	2

Avoid alternative text that is the same as adjacent text

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

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