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Alt text should not be this hard. So we built a better workflow.

A dialog box for adding alternative text to an image, featuring a text input field labeled "Describe this image..." with a "Suggest with AI" button, along with "Cancel" and "Save" action buttons at the bottom.

Large media libraries make one accessibility task unnecessarily painful: finding the images that are missing useful alt text. We built an Umbraco backoffice tool to make that work visible and manageable.

The problem

Editors can be doing the right thing most of the time and still inherit hundreds of older images with missing metadata. Finding them manually is slow, so the backlog grows.

What we built

A backoffice dashboard lists images missing alt text, gives editors a quick way to add it and removes the item from the queue once the issue is resolved.

missing alt tag dashboard

Where AI helps

We also tested image-capable AI models to suggest concise descriptions. The important design decision is that the AI suggests and the editor reviews. Accessibility still needs human judgement and context.

Why it matters

The useful part is not the AI demo. It is reducing the operational friction that makes good accessibility practice hard to sustain after launch.

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