Add or rewrite image alt text
Image alt text is the short written description attached to an image on a web page that visitors don't normally see: screen readers read it aloud to people who can't see the picture, and search engines and AI assistants read it to understand what the image shows. Deploying it means pasting the recommended description, which Findrix writes for you, into the correct alt-text field for each image on your website platform.
Screen readers announce alt text to visitors who can't see an image, so accurate alt text is what makes your pictures accessible; search engines and AI assistants read the same text to learn what each image depicts, index it, and describe or cite it in answers. Without alt text, assistive technology skips the image or reads out its file name, and machines are left to guess what the picture shows, often wrongly. Writing the alt text yourself states, in the field crawlers and screen readers read first, exactly what the image is.
Do it on your platform
Pick your website platform below for the exact place to make this change, and how to confirm it worked.
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Option A sets the default everywhere the image is used: in the WordPress dashboard open Media → Library and click the image you want to describe.
MediaLibrary - 2
In the attachment details panel on the right, paste your text into the 'Alternative Text' box. WordPress saves it on its own, and it becomes the default alt text everywhere you insert that image afterward.
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Option B fixes one image already placed in a page: open that page for editing and click the image to select it.
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In the Settings sidebar under 'Image', paste your text into the 'Alternative text' box (click the gear icon at the top right first if the sidebar is hidden). This sets the alt for that one placement only.
Check it worked. Re-open the same image in the Media Library and your text is still in the 'Alternative Text' box, then re-run the Findrix audit so the image-alt-text check turns green.
Heads up. Alt text set in the Media Library becomes the default only for images you insert AFTER setting it. Images already placed in older posts keep their own copy, so fix those with Option B. You don't add ImageObject schema by hand here; an SEO plugin such as Yoast or Rank Math emits image structured data automatically from the alt text.