Release: May 18, 2026

New feature

image accessibility setting to require alt text

Added support for requiring the alt text for images when adding and editing content. This helps to enforce accessibility requirements with images.

Image alt text is used by screen readers to describe an image and is important for maintaining accessibility.

Go to Settings -> Images to enable this. (For existing websites, this is off; for new websites, this will be enabled by default.)

The following will happen when this setting is enabled:

When adding or editing an image in the rich text editor, the image description (alt text) field will now be required. You can't close the image popup until you enter some alt text.
Image upload fields will require that the image description (alt text) field be filled in.
When submitting the form, image upload fields will be validated to ensure that their alt text is filled in.

There is some flexibility with the image upload fields. Sometimes, the alt text is always set in a template. In that case, you can configure the upload field not to require alt text. Usually, in that case, you also want to hide the alt text field, which you can do by editing the field configuration.