An ADA issue: «the ‘Google’ image link is missing alternative text stating the purpose of the link.»

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kitchencollection.com/storelocator/index/index

Code snippet

<img alt="" src="https://maps.gstatic.com/mapfiles/api-3/images/google4.png" draggable="false" style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 66px; height: 26px; user-select: none; border: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">

Rationale

Alternate text provides the information conveyed through images to the users in the form of text.
Alternate text is helpful for users with visual disabilities, learning disabilities, users browsing with text browsers etc. to understand the information conveyed using images.
Provide meaningful and descriptive alternate text for images that describes the purpose of the image.
However, if images are decorative then a descriptive alternate text is not required. Empty alternate text (alt=””) should be specified for decorative images to ensure that screen reader skips the same.