WordPress Ideas » Topic: Require alt text during uploading images

Hinjiriyo on "Require alt text during uploading images"

Hinjiriyo — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:52:28 +0000

No.

There is no ALT tag like <alt>...</alt>. There is the alt attribute some HTML elements like IMG have. I don't no how it comes to write about the "alt tag for images". In this case the alt attribute of IMG-elements is meant.

The alt attribute is not the same as the title attribute, see the HTML specs.

jdsaraiva on "Require alt text during uploading images"

jdsaraiva — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:22:50 +0000

Might the ALT tag be the same as the title ?

Hinjiriyo on "Require alt text during uploading images"

Hinjiriyo — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:14:49 +0000

Yes, I think that is a practical solution.

adnanmn on "Require alt text during uploading images"

adnanmn — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:22:43 +0000

I think it will be a pain for image uploaders. If WordPress wants it they can fill it with the image title (if its empty).

Hinjiriyo on "Require alt text during uploading images"

Hinjiriyo — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:18:15 +0000

As an accessibility expert I would like to see alt texts as required. At least I wish wordpress uses the image title as alt text if the alt text field is empty and stops using the title attribute instead.

mrwweb on "Require alt text during uploading images"

mrwweb — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:36:42 +0000

@rastarr, I'm sympathetic to the need of adding alt-text quickly, but I don't think that converting the filename to alt text is feasible. This idea is for requiring it in WordPress core where not everyone will rename their files nicely. To state the obvious, "DSC-3197.jpg" is not good alt text.

Generally, I think it's worth considering this good WebAIM article that drives home the point that alt text at its best is contextual. I don't think this is actually a good idea, but it almost makes me think that alt text should be required on insert rather than on upload (but with things like photo galleries and sliders, that's not really an option).

David Law on "Require alt text during uploading images"

David Law — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 03:15:39 +0000

Rastarr this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/media-library-alt-fields/ makes it easier to find images lacking alt text and fix it on one screen without having to edit every image (multiple clicks per image).

4 months since I posted in this thread and stumbled on it looking for code/plugin to manually add alt text as I upload an image and found my own post above :-)

Don't suppose anyone has code/plugin that auto adds alt text as an image is uploaded (similar to the default title output) though ideally replacing hyphens as spaces and capitalizing the text?

Uploading around 150 images and it's a royal pain having to basically copy and paste the filename minus the hyphens and capitalizing. This could be so much easier.

David

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on "Require alt text during uploading images"

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) — Tue, 29 May 2012 02:54:32 +0000

Please ask in the support forums. Likely you'll need to do it via SQL.

Martin on "Require alt text during uploading images"

Martin — Fri, 25 May 2012 06:13:48 +0000

Does anyone know how to retrofit all the images in my media library with Alt Text?

Ideas?

artychan on "Require alt text during uploading images"

artychan — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:35:54 +0000

prepopulating alt text with title with spaces instead of any punctuation (like underscores or hyphens) would be nice, with the additional flexibility to change it

I think allowing the admin to determine whether it should be required would be the ideal along with a checkbox next to the alt text to purposely say "this should be empty" when it is required.