Automatic Alternative Text
Automatically generate alt text for images with Microsoft's Cognitive Services Computer Vision API.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.1★ from 7
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 1 Jul 2019
- Added
- Aug 2016
- Requires WP
- 4.4
- Tested up to
- WP 5.2.26
- Downloads
- 10,729
Our analysis
AI-assistedAutomatic Alternative Text is a WordPress plugin that generates alt text for images automatically using Microsoft’s Cognitive Services Computer Vision API. It analyses the content of images and creates human-readable descriptions that are added as alt text when images are uploaded.
This plugin is designed for users who want to improve the accessibility of their images without manually writing alt text. It may be particularly useful for those who frequently upload images and wish to enhance their site's compliance with accessibility standards.
Best for: This plugin suits website owners focused on accessibility and who regularly upload images.
What it does well
- ✓Automatically generates alt text for images
- ✓Uses Microsoft’s Cognitive Services for image analysis
- ✓Helps improve accessibility for images
Where it falls short
- •Requires sending images to Microsoft for processing
- •Limited information on privacy implications
- •Last updated in July 2019
Verdict
Automatic Alternative Text provides a useful service for generating alt text, but users should be aware of privacy considerations and the lack of recent updates.
From the developer
Jacob Peattie's own description of Automatic Alternative Text, lightly tidied.
Automatic Alternative Text makes accessible images easy and fast by automatically generating alt text for images with Microsoft’s Cognitive Services Computer Vision API.
The Computer Vision API’s algorithms analyze the content found in an image and generates complete sentences of human readable language describing what is found in the image. The Automatic Alternative Text plugin gets this description and adds it as the alt text for each image uploaded while the plugin is active.
Privacy
The image, voice, video or text understanding capabilities of Automatic Alternative Text uses Microsoft Cognitive Services. Microsoft will receive the images, audio, video, and other data that you upload (via this app) for service improvement purposes. To report abuse of the Microsoft Cognitive Services to Microsoft, please visit the Microsoft Cognitive Services website at https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services, and use the “Report Abuse” link at the bottom of the page to contact Microsoft. For more information about Microsoft privacy policies please see their privacy statement here: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=521839.