Altmend – Find and Fix Image Alt Text
Most alt text plugins generate text. Altmend is built around the harder half of the problem: making the fix actually land on the page. Why that distinction matters An image block is a static block. WordPress serves the markup stored in your post, not the alt text stored on the attachment. A plugin t
Most alt text plugins generate text. Altmend is built around the harder half of the problem: making the fix actually land on the page.
Why that distinction matters
An image block is a static block. WordPress serves the markup stored in your post, not the alt text stored on the attachment. A plugin that only updates the attachment will show you a success message while your front end keeps serving alt="" .
Altmend writes to all three places that matter:
- 01The image block attributes, so the editor shows the right thing.
- 02The <img> tag inside your post content — this is the one your visitors actually receive.
- 03The attachment record, so future uses of the same image inherit it.
It never writes without your approval
This is a deliberate design decision, not a missing feature.
Across 39 images reviewed by hand, one class of error survived every prompt improvement we tried: the model would sometimes leave out something occupying a large part of the frame — buildings covering 25–30% of a photo, for example. There is no reliable automatic way to detect that omission, so a fully automatic mode would silently publish incomplete descriptions on your live site.
So Altmend suggests, flags its own uncertainty, and waits. You approve, edit, skip, or mark the image decorative, one image at a time.
Start with no API key and no cost
The first thing you get costs nothing and needs no account. Altmend scans the alt text you already have and flags the common problems: file names like DSC_01234.jpg , generic text like “image”, keyword stuffing, redundant openings such as “This is an image of”, markdown that leaked in from a paste, and text that is simply too long for a screen reader.
That scan runs entirely on your server. No API calls, no key, instant results in the Media Library.
Decorative images are your call, not the plugin’s
Whether an image should have an empty alt attribute depends on how you are using it, not on what the image contains. A marble texture used as a background should be empty; the same file used to illustrate a product’s material should not be. Altmend pre-selects an answer and asks you to confirm it.
What it does not do
- No overlay, toolbar or widget on your front end. Those do not fix the underlying markup.
