AI Alt Text Generator for Images – Bulk Alt Text & Accessibility Audit

AI Alt Text Generator for Images writes descriptive, SEO-friendly alt text for your WordPress images automatically. Instead of typing an alt tag for every image by hand, you can generate alt text for one image, for a whole page, or for your entire media library at once. Missing alt text hurts twice. It locks out visitors who use screen readers, which is an accessibility failure under WCAG, and it hides your images from Google Image search. Most WordPress media libraries have hundreds of images with no alt text at all, because writing them by hand is slow, repetitive work that nobody enjoys. This plugin does that work for you. Alt Text Audit Scan your entire media library and get a health score for its alt text. The audit flags every image with a problem:

• Missing alt text
• Empty alt attributes
• Duplicate alt text reused across images
• Alt text that is too long for screen readers
• Placeholder junk left behind by other tools

Every flagged image can be fixed right there: generate new alt text with AI, edit it by hand, or mark it as decorative and ignore it. You can filter the list and generate alt text for everything currently shown in one action. Bulk Alt Text Generator Process your whole media library in one run. The bulk generator works through every image missing alt text in batches of 100, with a live progress counter across the entire run, pause and resume, and a per-image log so you can see exactly what was written and what failed. Before a large run starts, a confirmation dialog tells you how many images will be processed. Generate Alt Text Anywhere You Work

• Block editor – an AI Alt Text panel in the Content tab of the image block
• Media Library – a generate button right in the attachment details modal
• Bulk generator – for the whole library at once
• On upload – optionally generate alt text automatically for every new image
• REST API – an endpoint for external tools and your own automation

Works in Your Language Unlike most alt text plugins, this one is not English-only. The admin screens, the editor button and the notices are translated into Spanish (es_ES) and Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR). The generated alt text follows your site's language too, so a Spanish site gets Spanish alt text and a Brazilian site gets Portuguese alt text, without any extra configuration. Bring Your Own AI

• On WordPress 7.0 and later, the plugin uses your site's native AI Connectors configuration. No separate API key and no extra account needed.
• On WordPress 6.x, the plugin uses your own OpenAI API key. Generation is billed to you directly by OpenAI, at roughly $0.001 per image with gpt-4o-mini.

There is no subscription, no per-image fee and no account with us. The plugin is free and you pay only your own AI provider, if anything. Supported Image Formats JPEG, PNG and WebP are analysed directly. AVIF images are converted to JPEG automatically before analysis instead of being rejected. Who This Is For

• Site owners with a large media library and no alt text
• Agencies and freelancers doing accessibility or SEO cleanups for clients
• Bloggers and photographers who publish a lot of images
• Anyone working toward WCAG accessibility compliance

1.3.2

• Documentation only: clearer plugin name, an expanded description covering the Alt Text Audit, bulk generation and language support, and more detailed FAQs. No functional changes.

1.3.1

• Plugin renamed to "AI Alt Text Generator for Images" so it is easier to find in the plugin directory. No functional changes.

1.3.0

• AVIF images are now supported: they are converted to JPEG before being sent for analysis, instead of being rejected. On servers that cannot read AVIF, the plugin explains the problem and suggests JPEG, PNG or WebP.
• Bulk Generator now processes your entire media library, in batches of 100, with a progress counter across the whole run.
• A confirmation dialog shows the total number of images (and that your API key will be used) before large runs start.
• Review request now appears after 5 generated alt texts (was 10) and is only dismissed when the server confirms it.
• Brazilian Portuguese plural rule corrected.

1.2.1

• New: the plugin now speaks Spanish (es_ES) and Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) — admin pages, editor button, and notices.
• New: a small, dismissible request for a review after 10 successful generations (only on the plugin's own screens, never elsewhere).

1.2.0

• New: Alt Text Audit dashboard (Media -> Alt Text Audit) that scores your library's alt text and flags missing, empty, duplicate, too-long, and placeholder values, with per-image generate / edit / ignore actions and a filter-aware "Generate all shown" bulk action.

1.1.3

• Fixed the Settings and Bulk Alt Text admin screens showing up blank: the script loader checked the wrong admin-page hook, so the React interface never loaded.

1.1.2

• Hardened REST API permissions: per-attachment capability check on generation, and the connection test is now restricted to administrators.
• Documented the OpenAI external service and the public source repository.
• Renamed internal code prefixes for uniqueness (fresh install — no migration needed).

1.1.1

• React-powered Settings page with live Test Connection button.
• React-powered Bulk Generator with pause/resume and per-image result log.
• Fixed WP 7.0 AI Connectors integration: uses the correct AiClient API (wp_ai_client() never existed; replaced with AiClient::prompt() fluent API).
• Plugin renamed to Internick - Smart Alt Generator (slug: internick-smart-alt-generator).

1.1.0

• AI Alt Text panel moved to the Content tab in the Gutenberg block editor.
• Block editor script loading fixed for WordPress < 6.6.
• REST API endpoints for settings (GET/POST /smart-alt/v1/settings) and connection test (GET /smart-alt/v1/test).
• Alt text field now fills correctly in the Media Library modal.

1.0.1

• Images are now sent to the AI as base64 data URIs instead of public URLs, so generation works on localhost, behind authentication, and on firewalled sites.
• The Media Library button now shows the result (or the error message) inline.

1.0.0

• Initial release: settings, media button, bulk generator, REST API.