# Automatically add a relevant alt image attribute

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-add-a-relevant-alt-image-attribute/259430>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [March 26, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-add-a-relevant-alt-image-attribute/259430 "2023-03-26T01:36:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 1:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-add-a-relevant-alt-image-attribute/259430/4 "2023-03-27T01:24:09Z")

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Yes, this has popped up before. To me the accessibility argument is far more important than the SEO one.

When you dump an image in a post and give it no description, blind people reading the forum are at a great disadvantage. They lose extremely important context.

AI can help bit here and provide [automatic titles](https://openai.com/research/clip). I would say it performs okish, but has plenty of gaps.

As an opening move I recommend creating a theme component .

`force users to provide titles on images`

When enabled and you post anything and forget to enter a title for your images we could prompt you with a intermediary bootbox that reminds you to add titles to your images.

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