Image alt text duplicates nearby visible text

Automated check image-redundant-alt, run with axe-core

WCAG

Best practice: a recommendation, not a WCAG success criterion

Severity

Moderate: a degraded experience

Typical effort

Quick win, under 1 hour

Category

Content

Who this affects

Screen reader users, who hear the same phrase announced twice in a row.

Why it matters

Not a blocker, but it makes pages tedious to listen to and usually signals a copy-paste approach to alt text that hides worse problems elsewhere.

How to fix it

If the adjacent text already conveys the meaning, set the image to alt="" so it is skipped rather than repeated.

Related checks: Content

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• Progress bars have no accessible name
• Tooltips have no accessible name
• Table header cells are empty
• Images have no text alternative
• Embedded objects have no text alternative
• Elements with role="img" have no text alternative
• Table scope attributes are used incorrectly

All checks