Adding alt text to course images

We are working on a course template and want to provide faculty with pre-sized banners. Is there a way to add alt text to course images so faculty don't have to do it later? Or is the only way to add alt text through the accessibility checker once you've added it to a page, etc.?

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Chris_Hofer

Hi @JoshAllenCC ...

As far as I know, "alt" text can only be added to images after those images are added to Canvas content pages. When editing a content page in a course, you can click on the image, and there should be an "Image Options" box that appear. Select "Image Options", and a slide-out from the right side of the screen will appear. You can then add a description to the "Alt Text" text box at the top of that slide-out. Now, if you were developing a template page that had some images/banners on it that everyone would be using, you'd want to make sure that those images within the template page had the appropriate "Alt Text" text filled in...so that anyone who uses that template page doesn't have to fill in the text every time.

I'm actually doing something similar with a course right now using DesignPLUS from Cidi Labs. I've got some templates in a course I'm re-vamping for an instructor, and a couple of my template pages have common images that are used throughout the course. So, I made sure that each of the images on the page had "Alt Text" so that I don't have to keep adding it over and over again.

I'm not sure if this completely answers your question, but hopefully it gives you some ideas moving forward. Sing out if you have any other questions about this...thanks!

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Chris_Hofer

Hi @JoshAllenCC ...

I'm not sure if this completely answers your question, but hopefully it gives you some ideas moving forward. Sing out if you have any other questions about this...thanks!

JoshAllenCC

Thanks for confirming what I thought. Yes, I've added alt text to images we've used in template, but for the additional options that will just be in the course files, I'll just include a document with already-created alt text so they just need to copy/paste. I appreciate the reply.

Gabriel33

The default alt text seems to be the image's filename.

So one option may be to make the filename be the desired alt text.
The main issue with that is that the file extension (jpg, svg...) will stay in the alt text unless removed manually (or via a script). Perhaps a custom JavaScript on the account can clear those?

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