Debut theme - adding alt tags to collection

Store Design

Topic summary

A user working with Shopify’s Debut theme needed to add alt tags to product images in collection pages. The issue affected two areas:

  • Collection page grid items
  • Featured collections on the homepage

Initial attempts to update the theme weren’t reflecting the changes.

Resolution:

The user solved the problem by adding the following code to line 2 of product-card-grid.liquid:

alt="{{ product.featured_image.alt }}"

This implementation successfully added alt attributes to product images, improving accessibility and SEO for collection displays.

Summarized with AI on November 23. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
1

Hi…wondered if anyone can help. (using the Debut theme)
Two things really (although associated)

  1. I’m trying to add alt tags to the collection-grid-item on the collections page and on featured collections on the homepage
  2. the changes I’ve tried don’t appear to be updating the live site.
2

I’ve figured it out…if anyone else needs this…I added
alt=“{{ product.featured_image.alt }}”

to line 2 of product-card-grid.liquid