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Start with a URL, image files, or a project. Check the alt text on a web page, generate descriptions for items that need attention, and copy the reviewed text into your source code.
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Enter a page URL to check its image alt text. See the findings in a list, generate descriptions for items that need attention, and copy the reviewed text into your source code.
1 Scan a URL
Open URL Scan in the A11Y workspace and enter a page URL. A11Y checks the images on that page and lists its alt text findings.
| Image | Alt text check |
|---|---|
| product- | Non-compliantMissing alt textGenerate alt text |
| event- | Needs reviewCurrent text: “image” |
| team- | Alt text present“Team members around a meeting table.” |
Find issues
Review the results for each image. Start with non-compliant items and inspect any descriptions flagged for review.
No alt text found
Next step: generate a description for this image.
Generate & review
Generate alt text for the selected image. Check it against the image and its page context, then edit it as needed.
Light oak dining chair with a straight back and four tapered legs.
Copy & apply
Copy the reviewed description into the image’s alt attribute. Save and publish your changes in your own website or project.
<img
src="/images/product-chair.jpg"
alt="Light oak dining chair with a straight back and four tapered legs."
>The scan does not change your website. You apply the update.
From a page URL to a fix you can apply.Check image alt text, generate what is missing, and copy the reviewed result into your code. No SDK or WordPress plugin is required for this workflow.
Scan a URL in WorkspaceFile & Project Upload
Use URL Scan to check images on a web page. If you are working with local files or a project, upload them to A11Y to create and review image descriptions.
Work directly with image files. Generate descriptions, review the wording, and copy the alt text into the content or code where each image is used.
Upload → Generate → Review → Copy
Bring a project into A11Y and work through its images together. Review the generated descriptions, then apply them to the corresponding images in your original project.
Keep the source project under your control.
Image Search Traffic by Industry
22% of all Google searches are image searches. Images without alt text are completely cut off from this traffic.
ONLINE STORE · FASHION
35–50%
Product images are the starting point for purchase discovery. If a competitor's product appears first, the click goes there.
INTERIOR · HOME DECOR
40–60%
One of the highest rates of image-based search — customers browse renovation portfolios and products by image.
RESTAURANT · CAFÉ
25–40%
Most customers search menu and ambiance photos before deciding to visit.
REAL ESTATE · LISTINGS
20–35%
Listing photos determine the click. Images with descriptions rank higher for the same property.
ACADEMY · CLASSES
10–20%
Build trust through event and class photos. Image exposure leads to enrollment inquiries.
Images with no description
0%
No text for Google to read — completely excluded from image search traffic.
When A11Y auto-generates a description
Visibility starts
Use URL Scan to find image alt text issues, generate descriptions for items that need attention, and apply the reviewed text to your original source code.
* Estimated share of image search traffic in organic search by industry. Results vary based on site SEO optimization level.
Why your images aren't showing up
There's no text inside a photo file. Google, ChatGPT, and voice search all read text that describes the image. Without a description, that image doesn't exist in search.
Google can't read images — it reads the description text attached to them. The more detailed the description, the higher the image ranks and the more search terms it matches.
AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini collect text from web pages to generate answers. Image information can only be read and cited by AI if it exists as alt text.
Google Featured Snippets and voice search extract structured text from pages. The more accurate and detailed the image description, the more likely it is to be selected as an answer.
This difference changes your visibility
Even with the same image, the number of searchable terms depends on how detailed the description is. A11Y converts every number and item in an image into text, exposing you to more search queries.
Description by a generic tool
"Quarterly revenue bar chart"
Keywords search engines read:
The actual figures in the image are missing. Won't show up in searches like "Q1 revenue comparison" at all.
Description by A11Y
"Bar chart, quarterly revenue (%): Q1 12%, Q2 9%, Q3 17%, Q4 14%."
Keywords search engines read:
With the figures as text, this appears in specific searches like "Q1 revenue trend" and "Q3 peak revenue." AI may even cite this page as a source for related questions.
How A11Y's description works across three channels
SEO · Google Images
A11Y
→ Appears in long-tail searches like "AI conference June", "Investment Center event"
GEO · ChatGPT Answer
A11Y
→ Can be adopted as a citation source in AI search answers
AEO · Voice · Answer Box
A11Y
→ Can answer voice searches like "When is the AI Innovation Conference?"
Check a page URL or upload your image files or project. Generate and review descriptions in A11Y, then copy the result into your website code or content editor.
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Who builds this
A11Y is built by a team with 20 years of experience delivering accessibility projects for public institutions and enterprises. The image description expertise built on WCAG 2.2 standards is the very foundation of SEO and AI search optimization. We publish our research and let the results speak for themselves.
Misun Lim
A11Y Founder & CEO
"Turning the information inside images into proper text — that's accessibility, and it's SEO, and it's the way AI reads the world."
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