Missing alt text

  • Resolved tonypercy

    (@tonypercy)


    1 year, 2 months ago

    I see that this problem has come up before, but the responses I read are gobbledygook to me.

    For years, I have successfully imported scans of various items to my Image Library, but suddenly they get rejected when I try to add them between my text because of ‘missing alt text’. I see a box where I can enter information on ‘Alt Text’, but I have no idea what it is for, or how I can correct the problem.

    I am sure it is something simple. (Images copied from elsewhere work okay.) Any ideas? Thanks.

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  • Alt text (alternative text) is an HTML attribute that is used to describe what the image is about. As the name suggests, the text will be shown when the image itself cannot be displayed because of any reason.

    It is also used for people with visual disabilities and audiences who use screen readers.

    In your case, the box showing the message “missing alt text”, you simply need to fill out 2 3 words on which the image is about. It will also help you improve your search engine rankings.

    As you mentioned images copied from elsewhere work okay, it might be possible that the images are already imported with the alt text.

    Thread Starter tonypercy

    (@tonypercy)

    Thanks so much, Kartik!

    I realized afterwards that the image was included, even though the ‘error message’ suggested otherwise. I judge it rather a feeble practice for WordPress to introduce this feature unannounced, and then have such a clumsy way of informing the blogger what is going on. The images I chose were merely illuminative, to help break up the text, and I thus left the box blank. But I’ll experiment a bit.

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