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Most alt text plugins generate text. Altmend is built around the harder half of the problem: making the fix actually land on the page.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n 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 Altmend writes to all three places that matter:<\/p>\n\n This is a deliberate design decision, not a missing feature.<\/p>\n\n 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 \u2014 buildings covering 25\u201330% 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.<\/p>\n\n So Altmend suggests, flags its own uncertainty, and waits. You approve, edit, skip, or mark the image decorative, one image at a time.<\/p>\n\n 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 That scan runs entirely on your server. No API calls, no key, instant results in the Media Library.<\/p>\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n The image scanner in the editor works with the block editor, covering image, cover, media & text, and gallery blocks. Classic editor content is handled when the alt text is written back.<\/p>\n\n The free audit does not contact any external service.<\/strong> It runs entirely on your server, and the plugin sends nothing anywhere unless you configure a provider and click a button.<\/p>\n\n AI suggestions are opt-in. To use them you supply your own API key for a service of your choice. Altmend ships with no provider configured and no keys of its own.<\/p>\n\n When you click \"Suggest alt text\" for an image, the plugin sends that single image, resized to a mid-size thumbnail<\/strong>, to the API endpoint you configured, together with the instruction prompt. Nothing else is transmitted: no post content, no other media, no user data, no site information, no telemetry. The request happens only on that click \u2014 there is no background scanning and no call-home behaviour.<\/p>\n\n The plugin author does not operate a proxy or relay and never receives your images, your key, or any data from your site.<\/p>\n\n Any OpenAI-compatible vision endpoint works. Examples of services you might choose, with their terms and privacy policies:<\/p>\n\n You are responsible for confirming that you are allowed to send your site's images to whichever provider you choose.<\/p>\n\n\n No. The alt status column and the audit of your existing alt text work without one and cost nothing.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. Suggestions are stored separately. Your post content and attachment alt text change only when you explicitly approve something.<\/p><\/dd>\n Because the automation cannot yet tell when it has left something out, and a wrong description on a live page is worse than an empty one. For a background image, the correct answer is an empty alt attribute \u2014 something an automatic generator will rarely decide on its own.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes, and it covers image, cover, media & text, and gallery blocks.<\/p><\/dd>\n Any OpenAI-compatible vision model works, but behaviour varies \u2014 usually in how much detail a model includes, not in correctness. Test on a few images before processing a large library.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. When you approve a suggestion, the plugin also updates the block attributes in the editor, so the editor and the database hold the same value and saving is a no-op.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\nWhy that distinction matters<\/h4>\n\n
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<img><\/code> tag inside your post content \u2014 this is the one your visitors actually receive.<\/li>\nIt never writes without your approval<\/h4>\n\n
Start with no API key and no cost<\/h4>\n\n
DSC_01234.jpg<\/code>, 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.<\/p>\n\nDecorative images are your call, not the plugin's<\/h4>\n\n
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\/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code>, or install it through the Plugins screen.<\/li>\nWhere things live<\/h4>\n\n
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Do I need an API key?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Will it change my images or posts on its own?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Why not just generate alt text automatically?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it support the block editor?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What happens if I change the model?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Will my edits be lost if I save the post afterwards?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
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