noRedundantAlt (since v12.0.0)
Enforce img alt prop does not contain the word “image”, “picture”, or “photo”.
The rule will first check if aria-hidden is truthy to determine whether to enforce the rule. If the image is hidden, then the rule will always succeed.
Examples
Invalid
<img src="src" alt="photo content" />;nursery/noRedundantAlt.js:1:20 lint/nursery/noRedundantAlt ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✖ Avoid the words "image", "picture", or "photo" in img element alt text.
> 1 │ <img src="src" alt="photo content" />;
│ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2 │
ℹ Screen readers announce img elements as "images", so it is not necessary to redeclare this in alternative text.
<img alt={`picture doing ${things}`} {...this.props} />;nursery/noRedundantAlt.js:1:10 lint/nursery/noRedundantAlt ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✖ Avoid the words "image", "picture", or "photo" in img element alt text.
> 1 │ <img alt={`picture doing ${things}`} {...this.props} />;
│ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2 │
ℹ Screen readers announce img elements as "images", so it is not necessary to redeclare this in alternative text.
<img alt="picture of cool person" aria-hidden={false} />;nursery/noRedundantAlt.js:1:10 lint/nursery/noRedundantAlt ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✖ Avoid the words "image", "picture", or "photo" in img element alt text.
> 1 │ <img alt="picture of cool person" aria-hidden={false} />;
│ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2 │
ℹ Screen readers announce img elements as "images", so it is not necessary to redeclare this in alternative text.
Valid
<>
<img src="src" alt="alt" />
<img src="src" alt={photo} />
<img src="bar" aria-hidden alt="Picture of me taking a photo of an image" />
</>