A wireless handheld device (10) includes a display (16), a processing device (12), and memory (14) that contains instructions executable by the processing device to indicate to a user that an image (302) on a web page has a hyperlink associated with it. The processing device receives (200) a web page, such as web page source information (24) from a web browser application (18), and scans (202) the received web page to detect whether an image within the web page has a hyperlink associated therewith. If a hyperlink is detected, the processing device generates (206) text (26) for the image to indicate that the image has an associated hyperlink. The processing device displays the newly generated text on the display together with the web page to visually indicate that the image in the web page has an associated hyperlink.