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False positive with link discernible text rule

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I have analyzed a page “https://www.firstrepublic.com/about-us/testimonials/ed-and-peggy-kavounas” and observed that there are 3 violations raised against the link discernible text rule. Third image has a proper alt text, but still axe throws violation against it.

axe-core version: 2.4.1 Code snippet of the element:

<a href="/about-us/testimonials/nancy-and-jeffery-smith" tabindex="-1">
    <figure>
            <!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?-->
			<img src="/~/media/frb/images/testimonial-images/553x350/2015_smith_553x350.ashx?h=166&amp;
			la=en&amp;w=262&amp;hash=4EF45AD92FAC024CDD5B5730B3E05B4374B2DB57" 
			alt="Nancy and Jeffery Smith" title="" width="262" height="166">
    </figure>
</a>

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:5 (4 by maintainers)

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WilcoFierscommented, Nov 16, 2017

Alright, after some testing, it’s not very consistent. NVDA (FF) and VoiceOver (Chrome) read the image, but JAWS (IE & FF) is ignoring it. So even though it’s not a problem everywhere, this is a problem. Conclusion, not a false positive.

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jnurthencommented, Nov 15, 2017

the accessible name calculated by FF for that link is empty so, based on FF, aXe is doing the right thing.

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