Accessibility is one of those areas everyone agrees matters, but it often gets pushed down the development queue. Alt text is a good example.
Adding descriptive alt text to every image improves accessibility, helps screen-reader users understand a page, and can support SEO. But for sites with hundreds or thousands of images, writing it manually is repetitive and easy to neglect.
That problem led me to build an AI alt text generator for WordPress.
The problem
WordPress makes it easy to upload images, but maintaining accurate alt text across a large media library is another story. Site owners usually face one of three situations:







