You are absolutely correct in assuming that having alt-text on the image inside the link is accessible. This is a known bug (https://github.com/Khan/tota11y/is

You are absolutely correct in assuming that having alt-text on the image inside the link is accessible. This is a known bug (https://github.com/Khan/tota11y/issues/1 https://github.com/Khan/tota11y/issues/1) that comes from upstream (https://github.com/GoogleChrome/accessibility-developer-tools/issues/156 https://github.com/GoogleChrome/accessibility-developer-tool...) and will hopefully be fixed soon. As for your notes on screen-reader text: you can "hide" it by not actually hiding it, but placing it off the side of the page. This will be picked up by screen-readers and will not cause any positioning issues. We use the following snippet all over Khan Academy. Bootstrap 3 uses it as well. .sr-only { border: 0; clip: rect(0,0,0,0); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0; position: absolute; width: 1px; } So I'd like to assure you that your image link is good to go (assuming the alt-text is good!). Sorry for the troubles.