Hi @webriti, thanks for getting back to me!
From a respectful standpoint, I see this more as a downfall. For a few reasons:
1. Plugins like Yoast SEO won’t recognize these changes since it’s not made in the database. i.e. I might have “poor” SEO since “none of my images have alt text”; when in reality, they do, it just can’t see it. Google sees it, of course, but it makes for difficult optimization from the user side.
2. This assumes that the user will forever use WordPress and depend entirely on the activation of your plugin. Should something migrate or the plugin crash (god forbid), the user is screwed (for lack of a better word) with hundreds, possibly thousands, of images that don’t have permanent alt text saved within the database.
3. It’s difficult from a visual standpoint if the user is auditing all of their images for accurate alt text. Under your plugin, the user must manually “inspect” each image. Which as you can imagine, would be terribly inefficient.
I’d love to hear your comments on the above. I haven’t found a plugin yet that assigns permanent alt text, and at this point, am facing a harsh reality of going them them all one-by-one and assigning them manually.
Thanks again,
Liz
[ No bumping please. ]