ALT Text for Images
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James Peacock
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Hi everyone. Setting alt text for images is now possible via the file viewer. Head to Files & media, open an image file, and in the information sidebar you'll see the alt text section (see attached).
Alt text is compatible with our Drupal integration today, and we're currently working on our Wordpress integration.
If you run into any issues, as always please reach out to our support team.
James Peacock
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James Peacock
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We are currently working on improving our asset management feature set as a whole, and included in this is the ability to set ALT tags for images. The first release of these improvements will be the introduction of a 'single-source-of-truth' for your files, whereby files can be uploaded and managed outside of items, including the ability to choose from your existing file library when adding files to items.
This first release will be launching in the next few weeks. Further details on following releases will be announced in due course.
barbara aria
Super important. We work on many higher ed sites and they all require alt tags (besides alt tags being best practice on all sites). Currently we capture them on a spreadsheet - burdensome.
Thomas Bredin-Grey
This should be a mandatory field by default. Images without alt text are bad for accessibility and so this is kinda stopping Gather Content from being viable for prettymuch anything government related, where we're usually working to WCAG AA 2.0 or 2.1 accessibility standards.
I would say that you should treat this as pretty urgent as images without alt text is encouraging discriminatory web content that might be inaccessible by the ~20% of people living with disabilities.