AI alt text
One of only two places AbleGuard uses AI. It reads each image in the context of its page, writes a plain-language description into your media library, marks decorative images as decorative, and never touches alt text a human wrote.
- Written into your library, permanently
- Decorative images marked decorative
- Never overwrites a human’s words
Why it matters
How the descriptions get written.
Plain descriptions, not keyword soup
The description says what is in the image, the way you would describe it to someone on the phone. It is not written for search engines.
Saved into your media library
The text is written to the image itself, so it stays if you cancel, switch tools, or move the image to another page.
It never overwrites a human
If a person already described the image, the AI leaves it alone. Your words win, every time, with no setting to get wrong.
Decorative images are marked decorative
A background flourish should be silent, not described. Those get an empty alt so screen readers skip them.
You still check it is true
Whether a description is accurate is human judgement, and it is one of the 16 manual checks rather than something the tool asserts.
Works through the platform
On WordPress it writes to the media library; on Shopify it writes to your product images through the Admin API.
How it works
Three steps, no vocabulary to learn.
The scan finds images without a usable description
Missing alt, empty alt on meaningful images, or a filename standing in for a description.
A description is drafted in context
The model reads the image together with the surrounding page, so a product photo is described as a product, not as “a picture”. Purely decorative images are marked as such, which is what a screen reader wants.
You review, then it is saved to the source
On WordPress the text is written into the media library; on Shopify through the Admin API. It stays there if you ever remove AbleGuard.
Describe your images once.
Start free, see how many of your images have no description at all.
Where the description ends up.
Alt text is one of the few fixes that is genuinely permanent, because it goes into your content rather than being applied to a page on its way out.
Written to the image, not to the page.
The text is saved on the image in your media library, which means it travels with the image and survives long after the plugin is gone.
- Saved into your media library
- Human descriptions are left untouched
- Decorative images get an empty alt
It uses whatever your platform actually offers.
WordPress has a media library, so that is where the text goes. Shopify has an Admin API for product images, so that is what we write through. Neither is a browser-side patch.
- WordPress: the media library
- Shopify: the Admin API
- Persists after you uninstall
Whether it is accurate is still your call.
A generated description can be fluent and wrong. Judging accuracy is one of the 16 checks automation cannot make, so it is listed for review rather than quietly counted as done.
- Accuracy is a manual check
- Listed, not skipped or guessed
- Edit any description at any time
Frequently asked questions
About AI alt text. The product-wide questions are on the features page.
Where else is AI used?
Only in developer briefs, the “explain this to my developer” feature. Every other fix is a deterministic rule.
What happens to the alt text if I cancel?
It stays. It was saved into your media library, so it is your content, not a runtime effect.
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