alt text for search icon

Hi

The icon is a font. No image, so ALT attribute is not a way to go here.

so how to make it WCAG friendly?

Please share some more details. What WCAG test is reporting you this element? Please share your website’s URL.

from Wave report: “A link contains no text.”

There’s no link there. It’s a button with ‘title’ attribute and with a text nested inside.

So please let me know your website URL so I could take a look at your case.