# Gallery - Alt text

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/gallery-alt-text/55469>\
**Category:** Elements\
**Created:** [April 1, 2026, 10:28am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/gallery-alt-text/55469 "2026-04-01T10:28:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![DazFisher](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dazfisher/32/34385_2.png) [@DazFisher](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/DazFisher)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 10:28am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/gallery-alt-text/55469/1 "2026-04-01T10:28:24Z")

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Is it possible to add alt text to images that are in my gallery?

I created my gallery using the media/folder which creates the thumbnails automatically, but I cannot see where to add the alt text to each image?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![jbob](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/jbob/32/31581_2.png) [@jbob](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/jbob)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 10:33am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/gallery-alt-text/55469/2 "2026-04-01T10:33:19Z")

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‘Caption’ also serves as an Alt tag (although strictly speaking it should be separate)

You need to click each image in your resources one by one … and fill in the image info \> caption

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/3/4/34e9d0b8a4b04095ad0776bebd8b2f1e9ab6d8bf.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![DazFisher](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dazfisher/32/34385_2.png) [@DazFisher](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/DazFisher)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 10:42am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/gallery-alt-text/55469/3 "2026-04-01T10:42:13Z")

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I’m already using the caption to show the year beneath each photo.

Perhaps I should explain what I currently have;

Football team photos, year beneath each photo.

I would like to name the players in the photo in the alt text box, but do not want to lose the year which currently occupies the caption box?

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**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/gallery-alt-text/55469/4 "2026-04-01T10:43:54Z")

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We have a ticket open here to add an extra “alt” field to support this. Can’t say when it’ll ship, but it’s high on the list!

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**Author:** ![mrp](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/mrp/32/16052_2.png) [@mrp](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/mrp)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/gallery-alt-text/55469/5 "2026-04-03T14:19:29Z")

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You can’t do that at present in the app as they are overloading the caption field. I hacked some perl together to fix it for my site but it’s ugly.

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**Author:** ![mrp](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/mrp/32/16052_2.png) [@mrp](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/mrp)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 3:13pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/gallery-alt-text/55469/6 "2026-04-04T15:13:01Z")

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This might do what you want. Add the text you want in the alt text in the Caption field but turn display of it off in the Lightbox Meta Data. Add the line you want under the each photo in the Author field and turn that on. You should now get the Caption in the alt text and the “Author” displayed under the photo.