Preparing for adulthood | Send

Looking after your health | Send

Graduated approach | Send

Things to do | Send

Friends and community | Send

404 Error Page | Send

Independent living | Send

Practitioner resources | Send

Welcome to Walsall's SEND Local Offer | Send

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

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Walsall Local Offer

Title / URL	Issues
Preparing for adulthood \| Sendsend.walsall.gov.uk/preparing-adulthood	1
Looking after your health \| Sendsend.walsall.gov.uk/preparing-adulthood/looking-after-your-health	1
Graduated approach \| Sendsend.walsall.gov.uk/node/8/graduated-approach	1
Things to do \| Sendsend.walsall.gov.uk/things-do	1
Friends and community \| Sendsend.walsall.gov.uk/preparing-adulthood/friends-and-community	1
404 Error Page \| Sendsend.walsall.gov.uk/invented-url-for-404-page	1
Independent living \| Sendsend.walsall.gov.uk/preparing-adulthood/independent-living	1
Practitioner resources \| Sendsend.walsall.gov.uk/node/7/practitioner-resources	1
Welcome to Walsall's SEND Local Offer \| Sendsend.walsall.gov.uk/	1

Avoid alternative text that is the same as adjacent text

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