Force ALT text on images

[curtismchale]

Force ALT text on images

[kevindherman]

@curtismchale all sounds better.

[kevindherman]

@curtismchale additional widgets that use images and should have alt text requirements:

• Hero unit (all displays except simple heading)
• Gallery

[kevindherman]

All of these files come from the media library so my hope is that if we start with forcing alt text to be required when uploading the original, then alt text is addressed in all applications of the file.

[curtismchale]

@kevindherman we can force ALT text in the media gallery when someone selects an image with the Fix ALT Text plugin.

This doesn't handle the ALT text in widgets as it won't fill in the text when you add an image but it will stop anyone from picking an image without ALT text so it would force older images to get the text and any new image would get it as well.

I'll have to build something custom to work with SiteOrigin widgets. Should I do that or stop here for now?

[kevindherman]

@curtismchale can this at least be deployed to Petaluma?

I think getting this part on Petaluma would be a nice win then circle back for the rest with breathing room.

[curtismchale]

@kevindherman is there a reason we wouldn't deploy it to all sites?

[kevindherman]

@curtismchale @lukefretwell the plugin looks great and is definitely an improvement from what we had before.

I really like the reporting/fixing feature to help solve the problem.

[curtismchale]

@kevindherman it's on Beta now and getting ready to go to all sites.

[kevindherman]

@curtismchale this is great and I actually think this does everything we need.

1. I added media in visual editor grabbing image file that was already uploaded and had no alt text, it required me to add it
2. I added an image set and did the same as above
3. I uploaded a new image for the image set and needed to add the alt text
4. I added an image widget with the same experience.

I'm not sure the widget level alt text is needed but we can revisit.

It may be part of a followup but the plugin's reporting/fixing is really nice and could go under tools in our admin. I didn't see where to access and play around with those features so lets not have that hold this up.

Huge improvement as is. @lukefretwell

[curtismchale]

@kevindherman yeah the settings UI is only available to PC Admins, but it doesn't match well with our Admin theme at all and would require a bunch of work to make it accessible to customers.

[kevindherman]

makes sense. for another day then.

[curtismchale]

Deployed the plugin

Composer: https://github.com/proudcity/wp-proudcity/releases/tag/2024.05.07.1214
Build: https://github.com/proudcity/proud-recipes/releases/tag/2024.05.07.1214