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Automatic Alternative Text

Automatically generate alt text for images with Microsoft's Cognitive Services Computer Vision API.

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Download Momentum

180 days
32 68 -52.9% 405

Related Opportunities

5 markets

Source Evidence

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mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95
Endpoint for uksouth

Endpoint for uksouth: users show security, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
Proof Blocked card complete accessibility QA and compliance reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
As well as setting the endpoint to https://uksouth.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/ , I found that I had to edit automatic-alternative-text.php (about line 260) to change the appended resource request from ‘describe’ to ‘vision/v1.0/analyze?visualFeatures=Description’.
complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.91
PLUGIN ABANDONDED

PLUGIN ABANDONDED: users show security, bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
Proof Blocked card complete accessibility QA and compliance reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
Are you still maintaining the plugin and running security audits on the code?
praise review · high severity · relevance 0.72
Works well but more involved on high security servers

Works well but more involved on high security servers: users show security, bugs, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
Proof Blocked card complete accessibility QA and compliance reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
Works well but more involved on high security servers We have reached out to the developer of this plugin with our concerns but we were ignored in the forum.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.87
Multisite issues

Multisite issues: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
Proof Blocked card complete accessibility QA and compliance reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
Multisite issues The plugin is not working with the WP Multisite configuration.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.86
Add alternative text to existing images

Add alternative text to existing images: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
Proof Blocked card complete accessibility QA and compliance reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
Therefore it would be great if your plugin would have the ability to also set the alt text also for the already uploaded images.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85
Regarding the plugin not working

Regarding the plugin not working: users show bugs, missing feature, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
Proof Blocked card complete accessibility QA and compliance reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
The issue with the plugin is that when I created it Microsoft only had one API endpoint and a relatively simple process for getting an API key.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84
Any hopes this plugin to start working again?

Any hopes this plugin to start working again?: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
Proof Blocked card complete accessibility QA and compliance reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
I’ve got the Computer Vision API account as well as the API key but seems like the plugin brings zero results (even with 1% tolerance level).
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.8
Instillation instructions NOT easy to follow

Instillation instructions NOT easy to follow: users show pricing, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
Proof Blocked card complete accessibility QA and compliance reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
Instillation instructions NOT easy to follow Instillation instructions NOT easy to follow unless changed to something easier.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
Undefined offset: 0

Undefined offset: 0: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
Proof Blocked card complete accessibility QA and compliance reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
Undefined offset: 0 I occasionally get this PHP error message: “Undefined offset: 0 in …/wp-content/plugins/automatic-alternative-text/automatic-alternative-text.php on line 297” The line number is “wrong” because I’ve inserted some instrumentation code, but the problem line is $caption = $response_body[‘description’][‘captions’][0] ?: false; It appears that
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
Admin notice re-appears after closing

Admin notice re-appears after closing: users show bugs, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
Proof Blocked card complete accessibility QA and compliance reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
Admin notice re-appears after closing Hello, Installed this cool plugin a couple days ago, works very well!

Competitor Context

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18 unresolved support thread(s) 20 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: directory owners, local businesses, agencies, and marketplace operators · Wedge: audit location submissions, map visibility, listing freshness, spam, and local-lead routing
Ally – Web Accessibility & Usability weak incumbent · intel 79.4 · weakness 67.6
weak incumbent
1 unresolved support thread(s) below-average rating bugs missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
WP Accessibility Helper (WAH) weak incumbent · intel 78.2 · weakness 68.8
weak incumbent
stale update history 9 collected complaint signal(s) support bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
AccessibleWP – Accessibility Toolbar weak incumbent · intel 76.1 · weakness 66.8
weak incumbent
stale update history 16 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
WCAG 2.0 form fields for Gravity Forms praise owner · intel 75.4 · weakness 66.1
praise owner
stale update history 25 collected complaint signal(s) bugs support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
Contact Form 7: Accessible Defaults praise owner · intel 74.4 · weakness 65.2
praise owner
stale update history 12 collected complaint signal(s) support bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
SOGO Accessibility praise owner · intel 71.7 · weakness 61.0
praise owner
stale update history 7 collected complaint signal(s) support missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
WP Accessibility praise owner · intel 70.1 · weakness 53.1
praise owner
13 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof

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Collected Signals

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complaint Possible to assign Alt tags to existing images? support · 2022-06-24T06:04:10+00:00 · medium severity · accessibility

Possible to assign Alt tags to existing images?: users show missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Possible to assign Alt tags to existing images?
missing feature setup reliable value accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
complaint PLUGIN ABANDONDED support · 2021-05-29T03:58:22+00:00 · high severity · accessibility

PLUGIN ABANDONDED: users show security, bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Are you still maintaining the plugin and running security audits on the code?
security bugs missing feature value accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
complaint Horrible set up (1 star) review · 2020-08-28T22:58:17+00:00 · medium severity · accessibility

Horrible set up: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Horrible set up Which normal person is supposed to navigate through the horrendous Microsoft Azure setup process.
setup accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
praise Great plugin, But how to add ALT to previously uploaded images? (5 stars) review · 2019-07-07T12:20:41+00:00 · medium severity · accessibility

Great plugin, But how to add ALT to previously uploaded images?: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Great plugin, But how to add ALT to previously uploaded images?
missing feature value quality accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
mixed Undefined offset: 0 support · 2019-06-27T11:55:46+00:00 · medium severity · accessibility

Undefined offset: 0: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Undefined offset: 0 I occasionally get this PHP error message: “Undefined offset: 0 in …/wp-content/plugins/automatic-alternative-text/automatic-alternative-text.php on line 297” The line number is “wrong” because I’ve inserted some instrumentation code, but the problem line is $caption = $response_body[‘description’][‘captions’][0] ?: false; It appears that
bugs compatibility support easy accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
complaint I think I am doing something wrong. support · 2019-05-17T12:02:23+00:00 · medium severity · accessibility

I think I am doing something wrong.: users show pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Is my subscription key the API?
pricing support api accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
complaint Add alternative text to existing images support · 2019-03-07T23:10:12+00:00 · medium severity · accessibility

Add alternative text to existing images: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Therefore it would be great if your plugin would have the ability to also set the alt text also for the already uploaded images.
bugs compatibility support value accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
mixed Endpoint for uksouth support · 2019-03-05T12:38:52+00:00 · high severity · accessibility

Endpoint for uksouth: users show security, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: As well as setting the endpoint to https://uksouth.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/ , I found that I had to edit automatic-alternative-text.php (about line 260) to change the appended resource request from ‘describe’ to ‘vision/v1.0/analyze?visualFeatures=Description’.
security compatibility missing feature support accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
mixed Bengali language support · 2019-01-28T07:02:52+00:00 · medium severity · accessibility

Bengali language: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: At the moment the plugin only supports English.
support form accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
praise Great plugIn to use the Cloud (4 stars) review · 2019-01-03T06:14:09+00:00 · medium severity · accessibility

Great plugIn to use the Cloud: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Great plugIn to use the Cloud Only 2 things are missing to be a 5 Star plugin: A way to handle already uploaded images and a way to change the language of the generated description text.
missing feature quality accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
praise Works well but more involved on high security servers (5 stars) review · 2018-10-09T12:58:52+00:00 · high severity · accessibility

Works well but more involved on high security servers: users show security, bugs, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Works well but more involved on high security servers We have reached out to the developer of this plugin with our concerns but we were ignored in the forum.
security bugs pricing support accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
complaint OCR & existing media library support · 2018-09-02T03:29:34+00:00 · medium severity · accessibility

OCR & existing media library: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: OCR & existing media library I’ve noticed that the plugin doesn’t make use of the OCR portion of the Vision API, any plans to add this functionality?
setup easy reliable value accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
mixed Admin notice re-appears after closing support · 2018-07-17T08:42:52+00:00 · medium severity · accessibility

Admin notice re-appears after closing: users show bugs, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Admin notice re-appears after closing Hello, Installed this cool plugin a couple days ago, works very well!
bugs missing feature setup easy accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
mixed Regarding the plugin not working support · 2018-03-06T10:10:42+00:00 · medium severity · accessibility

Regarding the plugin not working: users show bugs, missing feature, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: The issue with the plugin is that when I created it Microsoft only had one API endpoint and a relatively simple process for getting an API key.
bugs missing feature pricing support accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
mixed Any hopes this plugin to start working again? support · 2018-03-05T22:16:25+00:00 · medium severity · accessibility

Any hopes this plugin to start working again?: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I’ve got the Computer Vision API account as well as the API key but seems like the plugin brings zero results (even with 1% tolerance level).
bugs missing feature support setup accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
complaint Instillation instructions NOT easy to follow support · 2017-12-20T10:21:32+00:00 · medium severity · accessibility

Instillation instructions NOT easy to follow: users show pricing, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Instillation instructions NOT easy to follow Instillation instructions NOT easy to follow unless changed to something easier.
pricing setup easy reliable accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
complaint Multisite issues support · 2017-02-24T23:13:06+00:00 · medium severity · accessibility

Multisite issues: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Multisite issues The plugin is not working with the WP Multisite configuration.
bugs missing feature support setup accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
praise Great plugin beyond of doubt (4 stars) review · 2016-09-20T05:52:18+00:00 · medium severity · accessibility

Great plugin beyond of doubt: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Great plugin beyond of doubt It’s a great plugin to increase images accessibility.
support quality accessibility accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
praise Have to try now (5 stars) review · 2016-08-27T05:01:01+00:00 · medium severity · accessibility

Have to try now: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Have to try now I have to back my home and try it, Thanks I have to back my home and try it, Thanks
accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof
praise BOOM. Great starting point for everyone everywhere. (5 stars) review · 2016-08-26T19:12:18+00:00 · medium severity · accessibility

BOOM. Great starting point for everyone everywhere.: users show bugs, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Great starting point for everyone everywhere.
bugs missing feature setup easy accessibility QA and compliance reporting Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, site owners, and compliance-sensitive organizations · Wedge: prioritize accessibility WCAG failures, theme regressions, and client-ready remediation proof