diff --git a/config/scripts/check-readme-local-links.mjs b/config/scripts/check-readme-local-links.mjs
index 7ac6f609320..723d7e3ccce 100644
--- a/config/scripts/check-readme-local-links.mjs
+++ b/config/scripts/check-readme-local-links.mjs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import { pathToFileURL } from 'node:url'
 // git index rather than the working tree.
 const TRANSLATED_README_DIR = path.join('docs', 'readme')
 const EXTERNAL_TARGET = /^(?:[a-z][a-z0-9+.-]*:|#|\/\/)/i
-const HTML_ATTRIBUTE = /\b(?:src|srcset|href)\s*=\s*"([^"]*)"/g
+const HTML_ATTRIBUTE = /\b(?:src|srcset|href)\s*=\s*(?:"([^"]*)"|'([^']*)')/g
 const MARKDOWN_LINK = /!?\[[^\]]*\]\(([^)\s]+)(?:\s+"[^"]*")?\)/g
 
 function readmeFiles(root) {
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ function trackedFiles(root, candidates) {
 function* localTargets(markdown) {
   for (const match of markdown.matchAll(HTML_ATTRIBUTE)) {
     // Why: srcset is a candidate list ("a.gif 1x, b.gif 2x"); each entry starts with a URL.
-    for (const candidate of match[1].split(',')) {
+    for (const candidate of (match[1] ?? match[2]).split(',')) {
       const target = candidate.trim().split(/\s+/)[0]
       if (target) {
         yield target
diff --git a/config/scripts/check-readme-local-links.test.mjs b/config/scripts/check-readme-local-links.test.mjs
index 80edccaa5d8..2f7cfc76c92 100644
--- a/config/scripts/check-readme-local-links.test.mjs
+++ b/config/scripts/check-readme-local-links.test.mjs
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ const validReadmes = {
     '<img src="resources/build/icon.png" />',
     '<picture><source srcset="docs/site/public/docs/tab-split.gif" type="image/gif"><img src="resources/onboarding/feature-wall/tile-01.poster.jpg" /></picture>',
     '<a href="docs/readme/README.ja.md">日本語</a>',
+    "<img src='resources/build/icon.png' />",
     '<img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/x-y-z" />',
     '[Contributing](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) [Docs](https://example.com/docs) [Top](#top)',
     '![hero](docs/assets/hero%20image.jpg "Hero")'
@@ -119,6 +120,23 @@ describe('README local link check', () => {
     ])
   })
 
+  // Why: a single-quoted attribute is valid HTML and GitHub renders it, so a parser
+  // that only reads double quotes would pass a README with a broken image.
+  it('reports a missing target in a single-quoted attribute', () => {
+    const files = {
+      ...validReadmes,
+      'README.md': `${validReadmes['README.md']}\n<img src='docs/assets/missing.gif' />`
+    }
+
+    expect(findBrokenReadmeLinks(makeFixture(files))).toEqual([
+      {
+        readme: 'README.md',
+        target: 'docs/assets/missing.gif',
+        resolved: 'docs/assets/missing.gif'
+      }
+    ])
+  })
+
   // Why the ungated job: static_analysis is skipped for docs-only diffs, which is
   // exactly the kind of PR that deletes a docs-site GIF the README embeds.
   it('runs on every PR through the ungated guard job and in the lint script', () => {