Accessibility

Automatic alt text generation improves your website accessibility and helps you achieve ADA, EAA, and WCAG compliance.

Why Alt Text for Accessibility?

In order to be truly accessible, websites must make images understandable to those who are blind or visually impaired. The most common way of doing this is by adding alt text — a description of what the image represents and what it is about — to each image in the HTML code of the site. Visually impaired people use screen reader software to read alt text aloud as they navigate through each image on the page.

A polar bear is lying on a rocky surface with some snow, surrounded by trees and shrubs, near a body of water.

A polar bear is lying on a rocky surface with some snow, surrounded by trees and shrubs, near a body of water.

“You guys have built an amazing tool that makes it a no-brainer for sites to open their content to the visually impaired. I can't tell you how happy I am to see something like this finally available!”


Diana Montcalves
Director, The Buckner Center for the Visually Impaired

Legal requirements

Most countries have legal requirements designed to enforce website accessibility. To comply with these laws, your site must have alt text for each image. Instead of writing alt text by hand, AltText.ai gives you AI-powered, automatic alt text generation for almost any website. Use our WordPress plugin, Shopify App, or any of our other integrations to take the hassle out of writing alt text.

Benefits of Using AltText.ai for Accessibility

  • ADA Compliance

    Ensures your site meets the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Not only will you be making your site accessible to the visually impaired, but you will also avoid being the target of ADA lawsuits and legal trolling.

  • 100% Automated

    Our hands-off integrations create rich, human-quality image descriptions while also automatically updating your site's HTML code. Why spend hours and hours writing alt text by hand, when AltText.ai can do it for you in a matter of seconds.

  • WCAG Compliance

    Helps your site meet the latest WCAG global standards, which mandate every image should have descriptive alt text.

A laptop screen displaying the AltText.ai interface with a list of images, their alt text, and options to add, scrape, import, and export images. A file upload area is shown at the bottom.