Is there a way to add image alt text to galleries? Google’s accessibility requirements and SEO hate it when images don’t have alt text, and I can’t find a way to add alt text to any images in a gallery.

This should really be in the editor. Alt text is absolutely important for SEO for image search.

Can I ask why you want to improve SEO with just images? :slight_smile: You could upload them as regular images, that way you’d get to add alt text as well as a caption

I’d prefer to improve SEO every way possible. Alt text is required for accessibility and used by search engines to give context and include them in searches. Image search has increased traction with Google and is a good source of clicks from searches.

I will respond in support of @eidolem & @tippingpints request here. Every image should have its own alt tag. This is a core concept of Google’s SEO standards. Alt text (text that describes an image) improves accessibility for people who can’t see images on web pages, including users who use scree…

@Eric_Morgan Thanks for the detailed backup. Would also be great to add the schema.org info for images and galleries. Ghost does a great job on the article pages but only for the featured image. [image] Schema Markup Testing Tool | Google Search Central | Google... Use the Rich Resul…

I tried this. The alt texts are kept but it also breaks the gallery formatting. Here’s a screenshot of what I see in the editor vs the published article .

I would love to see this feature in the editor as well. The single image alt text feature is great, but I need to be able to do this with multiple images in a gallery.

Is there any news about this feature? Alt tag are a must have to work on SEO, every basic SEO tool will tell you this… It helps search engine know what the image is about and returns it in appropriate user image search. I used to drag all the images out of the gallery one by one, add an alt text …

Hi @prschulz I am wondering if your team has any new about this feature? Thanks in advance :pray:

How to add gallery alt text to images?

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Kevin February 14, 2020, 8:12am 8

If you drag images out of a gallery then you can set their alt text then drag the images back into the gallery, the alt text will be kept.

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How to add gallery alt text to images?

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