hi there,
Thanks for this plugin. Was reading through the forum posts to see if there is a way to pull alt tags for existing images. Aside from an implementation by @oheinrich, which is no longer live on his dropbox account, i do not see any more activity.

Is this plugin still actively developed?

@oheinrich, if you’re reading this, can you please re-share your implementation?

Greetings,

We see this plugin hasn’t had an update release in roughly 2 years. Are you still maintaining the plugin and running security audits on the code?

Thank you!

I occasionally get this PHP error message: “Undefined offset: 0 in …/wp-content/plugins/automatic-alternative-text/automatic-alternative-text.php on line 297”

The line number is “wrong” because I’ve inserted some instrumentation code, but the problem line is

$caption = $response_body[‘description’][‘captions’][0] ?: false;

It appears that Cognitive Services can occasionally return a 200 response but with no suggested caption. I’m using PHP 7.2 so my fix is easy: replace “?:” with “??”. For PHP 5, it needs an explicit “isset”, I think.

• This topic was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by timjh.

So I followed all the directions. But it is not working. Is my subscription key the API? Or one of the two “keys” located under resource management?

Hi,

on my website I have several thousand pictures uploaded.
Most of them don’t have the alternative text set.

Therefore it would be great if your plugin would have the ability to also set the alt text also for the already uploaded images.

Is the function maybe available in a future version of the plugin?

Best regards,
Oliver

• This topic was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by o.heinrich.
• This topic was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by o.heinrich.

In the hope that this will save someone else from tearing their hair out:

I’ve signed up to Azure in the UK. As well as setting the endpoint to https://uksouth.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/, I found that I had to edit automatic-alternative-text.php (about line 260) to change the appended resource request from ‘describe’ to ‘vision/v1.0/analyze?visualFeatures=Description’.

Perhaps I’ve missed something and there is another way of doing this, but it works for me.

Dear admin, does it work with Bengali language?

Thanks
Abu

I’ve noticed that the plugin doesn’t make use of the OCR portion of the Vision API, any plans to add this functionality?

Also would really like to see this be able to apply to previous media uploads. I really love this though, I am about to deploy it to ~200 WordPress installs. But if I could make this scan existing media library items, that would be absolutely incredible.

• This topic was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by partiallypro.

Hello,

Installed this cool plugin a couple days ago, works very well! Just the admin notice “Thanks for installing Automatic Alternative Text!….” re-appears after closing this notice.

Closing removes the notices, once page is refreshed or reloaded when navigating to another area notice re-appears. If there is a way to correct this please let me know or possibly in next update.

Thank you,

Chad

Hi,

I just wanted to post a topic regarding the plugin having ceased to function.

The issue with the plugin is that when I created it Microsoft only had one API endpoint and a relatively simple process for getting an API key. However Microsoft has now made the Computer Vision API a Microsoft Azure service which means that there are now multiple emdpoints for the API and acquiring a key is a different process than it used to be. So now when you enter an API key it won’t necessarily be valid for the API endpoint in the plugin and you won’t get any alt text on your images.

Unfortunately I haven’t had the time to work on the plugin lately, but I am aiming to release an update within the next couple of weeks that will include better instructions and support for the Azure endpoints.

As part of this I have moved the plugin to GitHub, where you can follow development or contribute:

https://github.com/JakePT/automatic-alternative-text

Thanks for your patience.

• This topic was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by Jacob Peattie.

I’ve got the Computer Vision API account as well as the API key but seems like the plugin brings zero results (even with 1% tolerance level). My assumption is that the plugin went obsolete and my hope is that the developer will be patching this plugin to address this issue. Also, i realize this plugin won’t go back and analyze already uploaded images — so also hoping developer will soon introduce such feature.

Instillation instructions NOT easy to follow unless changed to something easier. I clicked on the link that takes me elsewhere in yr installtion process.

The link takes me here https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/computer-vision/

Doesnt tell me what product Im suppose to select or anything. Yr installation process is VERY difficult

https://prntscr.com/hpyyss

https://prntscr.com/hpyzqc

Can you elaborate bit more please on what and where on that site we are suppose to do please

The plugin is not working with the WP Multisite configuration. Any clues on how to resolve the issue? Thanks