Hi Everybody,
I’m looking for an app that can generate Product image alt texts based on product metafields.
I’ve found multiple that can use title, brand, etc. But we have some extra values in a metafield that I would like to incorporate.
Anybody know any apps that support this?
Thanks in advance!
Hi Patrick, I’d like to learn more about this use case. Do all your products have data in the metafields or only some?
Hi @samdavidson !
Yeah sure. We’ve added a metafield with the color of the product. So all our products indeed have that metafield filled (thanks to the ChatGPT 4 vision API). The end goal is to have our product images rank on broader search terms in Google that include the color.
Just figured out a solution though! Instead of actually adding the metafield value to the alt of the images I’m just going to append it to the alt value in the code.
@PatrickH That’s an elegant approach. I was curious because I published a new app on the app store this morning to auto generate ALT text based on product fields. It doesn’t do metafields yet though.
If your goal is SEO and accessibility, it’s generally better not to just copy a metafield value or product name into the alt text. Modern SEO best practices favor short, natural descriptions that help screen readers, rather than keyword strings. An image-based AI alt generator can work well here, because it actually “looks” at the image and writes a human-readable description. For example, Naper AI’s Image Alt Text generator creates alt text for product, collection and theme images following accessibility guidelines, instead of just reusing metafields.