Accessibility: Best Practice – Alt Text Should Not Be Repeated As Text

When button and link text repeats in a alt attribute value, screen reader users hear the same information twice, which renders the alt text meaningless and confusing.

How to Analyse in the SEO Spider

To populate this filter ‘Accessibility’ must be enabled via ‘Config > Spider > Extraction’ and ‘JavaScript rendering’ mode via ‘Config > Spider > Rendering’.

View URLs with this issue in the ‘Accessibility’ tab and ‘Alt Text Should Not Be Repeated As Text’ filter.

Use the lower ‘Accessibility Details’ tab to click on the issue on the left-hand side, and see details of the location on the page of the violation on the right-hand side.

Bulk export the pages and details of the accessibility violations via ‘Bulk Export > Accessibility > All Violations’.

What Triggers This Issue

Please view the Deque University website further reading link below for ruleset triggers.

How To Fix

Ensure image alternative is not repeated as text.