diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2fb3422bd..8767c9200 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ $HeadURL: https://phpmyadmin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/phpmyadmin/trunk/phpMyA
 - bug #1910621 [display] part 2: do not display a BINARY content as text
 - patch #1957998 [display] No tilde for InnoDB row counter when we know
   it for sure, thanks to Vladyslav Bakayev - dandy76 
+- bug #1955572 [display] alt text causes duplicated strings
   
 2.11.6.0 (2008-04-29)
 - bug #1903724 [interface] Displaying of very large queries in error message 
diff --git a/libraries/common.lib.php b/libraries/common.lib.php
index dc9eb05f5..69cc23f4a 100644
--- a/libraries/common.lib.php
+++ b/libraries/common.lib.php
@@ -1562,8 +1562,11 @@ function PMA_getTab($tab)
     // display icon, even if iconic is disabled but the link-text is missing
     if (($GLOBALS['cfg']['MainPageIconic'] || empty($tab['text']))
         && isset($tab['icon'])) {
+        // avoid generating an alt tag, because it only illustrates
+        // the text that follows and if browser does not display
+        // images, the text is duplicated
         $image = '<img class="icon" src="' . htmlentities($GLOBALS['pmaThemeImage'])
-            .'%1$s" width="16" height="16" alt="%2$s" />%2$s';
+            .'%1$s" width="16" height="16" />%2$s';
         $tab['text'] = sprintf($image, htmlentities($tab['icon']), $tab['text']);
     }
     // check to not display an empty link-text