Adding alt texts to your content makes your site more accessible, optimizes your site for SEO, and gives text descriptions when assets fail to load or render.
Zoomforth allows you to add alt texts for all assets right in the site editor and in the Media Library. Any changes made to the alt text in the site editor are not reflected in those assets in the Media Library or on other published sites.
In the same way, changes made to the alt text in the Media Library do not affect the alt texts for the same asset in the site editor.
Moreover, alt texts are different from the descriptions, which may be displayed as captions for select assets. Alt texts only get displayed on a site if the asset fails to load or render.
Check out our article here on how to write effective alt texts.
To add alt texts for an asset in the Media Library
1. Click the asset from the Media Library.
2. Click the button Click to add alt text.
3. Add, or edit, the alt text.
4. Click the Save button.
To add alt texts for an asset in the Site Editor
1. Click the image or asset.
2. Click the Content tab in the left editing pane.
3. Scroll down and click Accessibility.
3. Add, or edit, the alt texts.
4. Click Done Editing Tile.
Alt text is one of several accessibility requirements. For the full list, see the accessibility guide for Zoomforth sites.