Alt Text Assistant

What it is

A single screen listing every image on your entire site — the featured image on each article, every photo inside your galleries, and any image you've pasted directly into your writing — with a place to add or fix its alt text and caption, right there in the list, without opening each post one by one.

Why it matters

Alt text is a short written description of what's in an image. It's easy to skip since it doesn't show up visually on the page, but it does two genuinely useful things:

• It's what a screen reader announces to visitors who are blind or low-vision, so they know what an image shows instead of hearing nothing at all. Skipping it isn't just a technicality — it quietly excludes part of your audience from content everyone else gets.
• Search engines read it too. Google can't "see" an image the way a person can, so alt text is a big part of how your images get discovered through image search, and it's one of the more overlooked pieces of on-page SEO. A site full of accurately described images tends to pick up more search traffic than one where every image is a mystery to a search engine.

Most people don't skip alt text on purpose — it's just easy to forget it in the moment while writing, especially with a gallery of a dozen photos. That's exactly the gap this tool closes: instead of relying on remembering every time, you can do a periodic sweep and catch everything you missed.

How to use it

Open Tools → Alt Text Assistant and you'll see every image on your site laid out with its current alt text (and caption, where that applies) shown right next to it. Images missing alt text entirely are visually flagged, so you can scan the whole list and immediately spot which ones need attention rather than checking each one individually.

Click into any field and type — your description saves right there, no need to open that post's editor at all. If you do want to jump into the full post for more context, each image links straight back to it.

A good habit: run through this tool right after a big batch of uploads, or every few weeks if you publish regularly, so gaps don't quietly pile up over months.