# 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:** ![BryanV](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bryanv/32/226479_2.png) [@BryanV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BryanV)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 7:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/encourage-enforce-adding-image-descriptions/166017/3 "2021-05-17T19:56:37Z")

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I’d like to bump this.

@codinghorror is there a place to make specific requests for technical improvements here? Requiring users to rename files or supply markup is simply a non-starter. Those techniques are completely non-discoverable, but even if they weren’t, are also a bigger hurdle than most users will climb. Adding alt text need to be _obvious, simple, and (critically) **part of the normal process** _ for uploading images, so that users who rely on assistive technologies can participate. IMO the best solution would be to have a pop-up on image upload that asks for descriptive text to be supplied. And at least for our forum I would even like a configuration to make supplying non-empty text _mandatory_.

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