Avoid redundant image alternative text
SkillMediaimage-redundant-alt is a skill for AI agents that reviews rendered HTML, interactive components, and design-system patterns to find repeated image alternative text that adds nothing for screen reader users. It checks native semantics first, then keyboard behavior, focus flow, accessible names, and screen-reader output where relevant.
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Details
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What your AI can do with it
- Detects redundant image alt text in rendered HTML
- Reviews interactive components for repeated alternative text
- Checks design-system patterns for unnecessary alt text
- Inspects native semantics before other checks
- Examines keyboard behavior, focus flow, and accessible names
- Reviews screen-reader output where relevant
Getting started
- Have an AI agent that can load and use skills.
- Add the image-redundant-alt skill to the agent's available skills.
- Ask the agent to review a rendered page, component, or design-system pattern for redundant image alternative text.
- Apply the agent's findings to remove alt text that adds nothing for screen reader users.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by thedaviddias/front-end-checklist in skills/image-redundant-alt/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Redundant alt text increases the verbosity for screen reader users without adding value, leading to a poorer user experience and slower navigation.
Quick Reference
- Do not repeat 'image of' or 'picture of' in alt text
- Avoid alt text that exactly matches adjacent text
- Keep alt text concise and focused on the image's meaning
Check
Scan image alt attributes for redundant phrases like 'image of', 'photo of', or text that duplicates surrounding content.
Fix
Remove redundant phrases from the alt attribute and ensure the text provides unique, descriptive information.
Explain
Explain why screen readers already announce 'graphic' or 'image', making phrases like 'image of' unnecessary and repetitive.
Code Review
Review the rendered markup and interactive states that affect Avoid redundant image alternative text. Flag exact elements, roles, labels, focus behavior, or keyboard interactions that violate the rule, and note how to verify the fix with browser accessibility tooling or assistive tech.
For full implementation details, code examples, and framework-specific guidance,
see references/rule.md.
Rule page: https://frontendchecklist.io/en/rules/accessibility/image-redundant-alt
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 74k
- Forks
- 7k
- Last commit
- Oct 2026
Questions
- When should this skill be used?
- Use it when reviewing rendered HTML, interactive components, or design-system patterns related to avoiding redundant image alternative text.
- What does the skill check first?
- It checks native semantics first, then inspects keyboard behavior, focus flow, accessible names, and screen-reader output where relevant.
- What counts as redundant alt text?
- Repeated image alternative text that adds nothing for screen reader users.
Advanced
- Item type
- skill
- Key
image-redundant-alt- Source
- github.com/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist
github.com/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist