GeoDirectory SupportSetting Alt Attribute For Listing Images – GeoDirectory Support https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/setting-alt-attribute-for-listing-images/feed Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:42:32 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.5.14-6684 en-US https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/setting-alt-attribute-for-listing-images/#post-35505 <![CDATA[Setting Alt Attribute For Listing Images]]> https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/setting-alt-attribute-for-listing-images/#post-35505 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 13:58:50 +0000 Fearless_Shultz I’m posting this under bugs as as although I can see from past posts that it seems for some reason to be intended behaviour, the intended purpose of the alt attribute which is to aid visually impaired users by providing a descriptive textual / audio representation of the image in question and image file name is not the place to do this….

Are there any plans to use the WordPress media manager to place images in listings and allow the alt and title attributes to be properly set without having to use a convoluted file name to get an approximation of how image labeling normally works?

Kind Regards

Mike

]]> https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/setting-alt-attribute-for-listing-images/#post-35558 <![CDATA[Reply To: Setting Alt Attribute For Listing Images]]> https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/setting-alt-attribute-for-listing-images/#post-35558 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:42:45 +0000 Simone Hello, I’m afraid but the only way to have an alt in the images is to set the filename of the image during the upload process

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