How can I set the alt text of an image to be blank?

I am trying to set the alt text on an image to be blank.

So far I have tried ...

• leaving the caption empty and turning the caption off (This leads to the image name as the alt text)
• setting the caption to a bunch of spaces and then turned the caption off. (this leads to the image name as the alt text)

Anyone have other ideas?

Would love to hear some answers for this! I'm running into all kinds of alt text issues on Squarespace - how to hide the alt text, how to add alt text to a banner image, etc. Have they not considered accessibility issues? Why isn't this straightforward?

Hey @e2thex and @kika.tuff,

Still having headaches with this? Our team offers alt text management as part of our Squarespace accessibility monitoring service. We write appropriate alt text for each image and use custom code to override Squarespace's default alt text values where needed (including null alt values for backgrounds and decorative images). We also have custom solutions to augment Squarespace templates for full WCAG 2.1 AA and ADA compliance.

Feel free to send me a DM or check out our website (www.squareada.com) if you're interested.

-Tyler

Hello @e2thex and @kika.tuff,

Make sure the "Filename (Optional)" field is empty (pictured). This will create an empty alt attribute ensuring that assistive technology ignores the image. For inline images, also make sure that there is no visible or hidden caption.

Hope this helps!

-Adam

I even have some other query approximately class navigation on Bedford template. The category navigation in the cellular view is simplest displaying + image, however not anything else, whilst entering the product web page.

I have labelled my files on my website page with alt text in the file name put a description and turned on add captions and google lighthouse is still saying that I don't have alt attributes for my thumbnails on my page?

@elexjohn

Please post the URL for the page your site with the images.

If your site is not public please set up a site-wide password, if you've not already done so.

Post the password here.

Adding a site-wide password is not a security breach. Please read the documentation at the link provided to understand how it works.

We can then take a look at your issue.