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WCAGWatch
Automated monitoring for common WCAG-related accessibility issues, reports, scan history, and website maintenance workflows.
Image Alt Text Checker
WCAGWatch helps website owners, ecommerce stores, agencies, and content teams scan public pages for common image alt text issues and monitor changes over time.
Run An Alt Text Scan
Scan a public page for common image alt text issues, then save the website for recurring checks, issue history, and reports.
Enter a public domain or full URL. WCAGWatch adds https:// when needed and opens the scan preview.
Public Page
Start with one public page before saving the website for monitoring.
One-Page Scan Preview
Preview issue counts, severity, affected elements, and issue details.
Save For Monitoring
Save the website when recurring scans, issue history, alerts, and reports are needed.
Flags images missing alternative text or needing informative or decorative handling.
Helps teams decide whether images should describe products, services, locations, charts, icons, or page content.
Track alt text issues over time after product uploads, blog posts, landing pages, theme changes, and content updates.
What This Checker Looks For
WCAGWatch checks public pages for missing, suspicious, repeated, and context-sensitive image patterns that need a closer look.
Finds images missing an alt attribute and marks them for a closer look.
Identifies images using empty alt text so teams can confirm they are actually decorative.
Highlights patterns that may need a closer look, such as repeated filenames, generic wording, or unhelpful descriptions.
Checks linked images and image buttons where the accessible name should explain the action or destination.
Checks product, collection, and promotional images that can affect buying decisions.
Supports recurring checks after new WordPress posts, Shopify products, landing pages, or media library changes.
How To Fix
Write concise alt text that communicates the image purpose in the page context.
Purely decorative images should use empty alt text so assistive technology can skip them.
Do not use unhelpful text such as image123.jpg, photo, graphic, or logo unless that is truly the informative label.
When an image is inside a link or button, the accessible name should explain the action rather than the image appearance alone.
Use Cases
Check new product images, collection cards, and promotional graphics for missing or weak alt text.
Check blog images, service page graphics, page-builder sections, and uploaded media across public pages.
Use reports to show clients where image descriptions are missing or need a closer look.
Check homepage, service, gallery, testimonial, location, and contact page images.
FAQ
An image alt text checker scans public pages for images that may be missing alt text or need a closer look as informative, decorative, linked, or product-related images.
Informative images need useful alt text. Purely decorative images usually use empty alt text so assistive technology can skip them.
Automated checks identify missing or weak patterns. People still confirm whether the image description is accurate and useful in context.
Account workflows support saved websites, recurring scans, issue history, fixed issue tracking, and reports.
