Studio Editor: Adding Alt Text to Images
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Alternative (alt) text provides a concise description of images, helping search engines and assistive technologies grasp the content of your visuals. Incorporating alt text boosts both the site's accessibility and SEO, making it essential for the sites you're building for clients.
Make it a standard practice to include alt text for all images. This not only enhances the experience for site visitors but also improves search visibility. By doing this, you elevate the overall quality of the sites you create, and your clients will appreciate the resulting accessibility and higher search rankings.
It’s a straightforward yet impactful way to ensure your clients’ sites are visually appealing, functional, and inclusive.
Adding alt text to images in your editor
No matter whether the site has single images, pro galleries, or both, you can add alt text. You can add it to single images from their settings, and to pro gallery images from the Media Manager.
To add alt text in the editor:
- Go to your editor.
- Click the relevant image or pro gallery.
- Add the alt text:
Single images
.
Pro gallery images
Note:
It is not currently possible to add alt text to images / galleries in bulk. If you would like to see this feature, you can vote for it here.
Adding alt text to images in the Accessibility Wizard
You may be prompted to add alt text to images when you scan a site with the Accessibility Wizard. If you have already added alt text, you can still use the task's drop-down to update it.
To add alt text in the wizard:
- Go to your editor.
- Click Site Checker
on the left side of your editor.
- Select Fix Accessibility Issues.
- Click Scan Site.
- Select the Detected issues tab.
- Open the relevant page drop-down.
- Click Add alt text to images.
- Click Add alt text beside the image.
- Enter the text description into the field.
- Click Apply.
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