When creating a new blog post with the Capser theme and a “main image” (not an in-post inage) or thumbnail image. Is it possible to add alt text, and if not, a caption? I’m trying to be 508/WCAG accessibility compliant.

Sorry, not in-post. The “main” header image of a post. I’m aware of the markdown code for an imagine within a post.

[screenshot_343] Then you want to add your alt tag there. Its coming from the theme header code. So you need to edit with dyanamic alt tag like post title .

A caption workaround is to replace the main image with a regular full size image in the post content, that can of course have a caption by using HTML’s figcaption . This also allows to have a thumbnail instead of the full image in the post settings, using it for post index pages only (and removing i…

You can edit your theme to achieve any sort of alt text you want for featured images, either set statically or pulled dynamically from the title or any of the custom meta fields

I just want to chime in on this and say the solutions presented here aren’t necessarily useful for someone looking to make their site completely ADA compliant. A static alt tag doesn’t really help if you’re trying to add descriptive text for a specific image. The title of the post doesn’t actually…

hello beautiful humans… :rainbow: :hugs: we know the ghost post image uploader doesn’t offer post image alt text and we know there are work-arounds can we know why the image post image uploader doesn’t offer post image alt text is it a technical matter; a decision not to; something other? are ther…

Yes You can surely add alt text or caption or both in the featured image. Adding Alt text is really essential for SEO as well

Would love to have this as a core default. I just found a beautiful header image on Unsplash and I would love nothing more than to give proper attribution to the image creator, but it appears the theme we’re using doesn’t have this built-in. I’ll create an issue to our webteam’s queue, but I doubt t…

Agreed, this is a massive issue for compliance and simply good publishing. From early testing the ghost team need a couple of traditional publishers on the team to deal with seemingly simple things like this - a very simple ask.

Featured image in post, adding alt text or captions?

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Yes… you can add that easily in ghost.
Example Code :

![Your Alt Text Here] (Your Image Link Here)

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Featured image in post, adding alt text or captions?

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