Alt text for images pasted into a blog post

[Brandon_Skerritt]

Hi,

It’s not possible to copy and paste an image into a blog, and write alt text for that image. To add alt text to an image you have to either:

• Upload the image to an external image hosting site, make the tag in HTML and add alt text, putting that into your blog
• Upload the image to an external image hosting site, and add it via markdown with alt text.
• Upload an image to a blog post (draft blog post), preview that draft blog post, copy image location, paste it into your blog post with either HTML / Markdown and write the alt text that way

What I think would work nicely:

When you click an image you’ve uploaded, you get this nice box:

It would be nice to see an “alt-text” button that letts you write alt text for the image

See also this post on automatically adding alt text:

Set alt tag for img if there is figure caption

Suggest to add alt tag when adding an image through the admin interface (not markdown) with a figure caption. It will be useful for seo. I wrote a line of code, test it and it works. file Ghost/core/server/lib/mobiledoc/cards/image.js line 39 if (!payload.alt) { img.setAttribute('alt', payload.caption); } I cant commit in repo, so maybe somebody who can will take this.

[Brandon_Skerritt]

Small update: You can add alt text if you add a Markdown card, upload the image via the card and change the alt text there. The image is not centered in the editor, but it’s centered in the post

[naz]

Heads up to this idea being currently implemented (landed in master) and will be shipped as a part of coming Tuesday release (probably 2.25.10)

[Brandon_Skerritt]

Thank you SO much!!!
I really appreciate this, a lot!!!
I cannot thank you all enough.