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Neat image plug4/2/2023 Do you know the difference between these? And so this is something that I’m learning about and I’m not an accessibility expert so I might misspeak, but I’m trying my best to learn about it.Īnd we were saying that this will scan images… I think I can go to, well first off, let me just show if you are on WordPress, if for some reason my media isn’t loading properly here, but when you’re in WordPress you’ll have sections for alternative text and so you can have your image when you’re in your media browser and then you have alternative texts and you have a caption.Īnd I guess, is there anything we should know about there’s description, caption, alternative text, those three things to an average user, those might sound like the same thing. That’s a shameful thing that I have 15 years of photos because my blog is definitely very image centric. And even then I still wasn’t using alt text until recently and I’m not bragging about that. In particular, I think around four or five years ago is when I started getting better at using headers instead of just bold text or changing the size, like actually making my text formatted correctly. Yeah, so we’re talking about alt text and I have to say I’ve been blogging for 15 years on WordPress and before that I was on blogger and other CMSs and alt text and proper accessibility wasn’t something that I’ve been practicing for most of that time. Our main goal is not to replace the human touch on the alt tag, but is a tool to help people help the content creator or the owner of the website to add this important information on the image for every images on the website. So we think this is a good start to add this option to every image. ![]() And also the problem is the WordPress doesn’t really prompt you that, “Hey, you have to add our text to this image.” So it is up to you, it’s like an option, but focus of our companies to make a internet more accessible as possible. So the alt tag is very important for a people with a per vision to have a context so of the page that they are looking at that are visiting on the internet and should say, it should have a short description of what is in the image and is very helpful for people to understand what is on the webpage and the problem that we face, working with many clients. Why don’t you tell us a little bit about what is the purpose of an alt tag for an image and why they’re necessary for a site? And then I assume there’s some sort of, I didn’t get into payment options yet, but I kind of ran it on 100. There’s 100 free credits, I think, that you can start off with and it’s important to note that I guess that the first 100 are free. And like I said, I ran it yesterday myself on my site. So the whole purpose of this plugin is to provide alt text descriptions for WordPress images. So EveryAlt we took one month, but before what was more studying and more testing or other things that could be done with AI or WordPress. Let’s focus on the Alt text images for now. So before doing this we did different things, always using the same technology and then we decide, okay, it could work. And how long did you all work on this project before launch day yesterday And this is the first project you all have launched. Yeah, we launched it yesterday morning and we are quite happy with the results so far.Īnd as I understand this is, it’s a project that HDC that I know Rob has been kind of interested in working in AI and WordPress. I actually installed it yesterday, I think it was yesterday, the launch day for it? Today I am joined by Andrea Vitale, a web developer at HDC who is working on a new plugin, a new WordPress plugin called EveryAlt. ![]() So go to torquemag.io to check out more episodes of the social hour and of Press This. ![]() My name is Doc and I’m a contributor at torquemag.io, which is a resource for podcasts like this live streams as well as tutorials, tunes, and all sorts of WordPress News. Hello and welcome to the Torque Social Hour, a weekly live stream of WordPress news and events. Our senior developer, Andrea Vitale, chatted with Doc Pop on the Torque Social Hour about the new project. This week, the MasterWP team launched EveryAlt, a new AI-powered tool that intantly generates accurate alt text for all your images.
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