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Hello all, I'd appreciate some help with Squarespace 7.1.

I've created sections which are images on my website, only to discover that I'm unable to put alt-text on them. On digging around on Squarespace support, the attached tells me that file names can be utilised as alt text. My question is, how can you get file names on images to be visible on your website? I don't seem to be able to see the file names. Am I missing something? 

Help gratefully received! 

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31 minutes ago, crak said:

I've created sections which are images on my website, only to discover that I'm unable to put alt-text on them. On digging around on Squarespace support, the attached tells me that file names can be utilised as alt text.

Please raise this directly with Squarespace Customer Care, as I'm not sure the advice in that support article is correct. 🤔

In my experience, Squarespace does not add alt text to section backgrounds (see below):

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In most cases this is not surprising because, for accessibility reasons, it is not ideal to use background images "as the sole method of conveying important information" (WCAG F3). However, I'm not aware of a functioning feature that adds the filename as alt text when section backgrounds do require it.

If Customer Care tell you anything different, please share what they tell you 🙂

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