Hello @bburgay,
Thank you for sharing your concern.
The current behavior—automatically filling empty alt attributes with the image title—was introduced based on user feedback, as empty alt tags can sometimes trigger warnings in certain SEO tools and audits. To help users avoid those warnings, the plugin uses the image title as a fallback when no alt text is provided.
That said, you are absolutely right that, from an accessibility standpoint, there are valid cases (such as decorative or redundant images) where an empty alt attribute is the correct approach. In general, the best practice is to provide meaningful and context-specific alt text for images whenever possible, rather than relying on fallbacks.
We truly appreciate you highlighting this. We will revisit this behavior and consider improvements or more flexible options in future versions of the plugin.
Thank you again for your valuable feedback.
Hi Pulak,
I know and I get it. It’s just not ideal for slideshows with a ton of images that are redundant, and we don’t want a bunch of alt attributes with DSC9348 etc. as that’s worse than leaving it empty. We’d like to define the alt on several and leave the rest empty. Maybe you can just provide a checkbox to enable the auto fill with title attribute functionality and leave it on by default? 🙂
Thanks,
Brian
Hello @bburgay,
Yes, we will definitely think about the option, and we thank you for the suggestions. We will try to include more user-friendly features in the upcoming version of the plugin.
Thank you.
