Kilotest: Diagnoses of image name contains image
violation by HTML element 360 on Freedom of the Press Foundation page
Basics
About the Freedom of the Press Foundation page
- URL: https://freedom.press/
- Tested 38 days ago by job
mwyon 2026-04-24 at 21:54
About HTML element 360
- Tag name:
IMG - Text:
Four new threats to your personal data … SECRECY•NEWSLETTER
- Start tag:
<img alt="Image of a lock hovering over a computer screen containing many data points." class="card-image" height="254" src="https://media.freedom.press/media/images/29723649810_8cb4a06489_c.2e16d0ba.fill-451x254.jpg" width="451"> - XPath:
/html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/section[1]/div[2]/article[2]/img[1] - Bounding box: x = 1303, y = 2027, width = 357, height = 201
About the image name contains image
issue
- Why it matters: User is redundantly told an image is an image
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.1.1
Diagnoses
Here is how tools diagnose the image name contains image
issue for HTML element 360 of the Freedom of the Press Foundation page.
- <p>This image's alt text is "Image of a lock hovering over a computer screen containing many data points.," which mentions that this image is an image.</p> <p>Screen readers announce they are describing an image when reading alt text, so phrases like "image of" and "photo of" are usually redundant in alt text; the screen reader user hears "image: image of something."</p> <p>Note that this is OK if the format is referring to the <strong>content</strong> of the image:</p> <ul><li>Format is redundant: "<em>photo of</em> a VHS tape"</li> <li>Format is relevant: "<em>photo of</em> a VHS tape in a photo album being discussed in a history class"</li></ul>
Tool: Editoria11y (Princeton University)
Rule:
altImageOf