# Encourage/enforce adding image descriptions

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/encourage-enforce-adding-image-descriptions/166017
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** composer, ai
**Created:** [October 2, 2020, 2:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/encourage-enforce-adding-image-descriptions/166017 "2020-10-02T14:11:34Z")
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### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/encourage-enforce-adding-image-descriptions/166017/19 "2025-03-19T00:09:38Z")

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> [@icaria36](#):
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> Do you mean to add a footer or something more like ALT?

The alt attribute is the image description, that you can add inside the image markdown syntax, or directly from the image thumbnail in the post preview 🙂

Markdown example:

`![The image is a Discord AI blog post by a product manager discussing the AI Auto responder, a feature using AI to intelligently reply to support queries, requiring Discourse automation and AI plugins for functionality. (Captioned by AI)|230x500](upload://6rMT7zREgcFUdeLKbbXXSqOUZLo.jpeg)`

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