AI Alt Text Generator for Parish Council Websites

Keep your website images accessible, compliant and easier to manage

Parish and town council websites are updated regularly. Clerks often upload photos from meetings, events, community projects, local notices, consultations and news posts. But one important accessibility step is often missed: adding meaningful alt text to images.

Missing image alt text can make a website less accessible for people using screen readers and may contribute to accessibility compliance issues under WCAG 2.2. WCAG requires non-text content, including images, to have a text alternative that serves an equivalent purpose.

Parish Web & Host can provide an AI Alt Text Generator for your WordPress website, helping you save time and reduce the risk of forgotten image descriptions.

What is alt text?

Alt text is a short written description added to an image. It helps people who cannot see the image understand what it shows.

For example, instead of an image being uploaded with no description, it could automatically receive alt text such as:

“Councillors and residents attending a parish council community meeting in the village hall.”

This helps improve accessibility and supports better website usability.

Why this matters for parish councils

Council websites need to be accessible to everyone, including residents who use assistive technology.

Many clerks are already busy managing agendas, minutes, notices, consultations, events, policies and website updates. Remembering to write alt text for every image can easily be missed.

The AI Alt Text Generator helps by automatically creating image alt text when images are uploaded to the WordPress Media Library. The AltText.ai WordPress plugin analyses uploaded images and automatically adds alt text to the image properties.

Benefits for your council

Saves time

No need to manually write alt text for every image you upload.

Helps maintain accessibility

Reduces the chance of images being left without descriptions.

Supports WCAG 2.2 compliance

Alt text supports WCAG Success Criterion 1.1.1, which requires text alternatives for non-text content.

Works automatically

Once configured, the plugin can generate alt text when new images are added to the website.

Helps with existing images

AltText.ai also provides bulk updating for existing images, helping repair older media libraries where alt text may have been missed.

Supports modern image formats

The plugin supports common image types including JPG, PNG, WebP, SVG and AVIF.

Ideal for parish and town councils

This service is especially useful for councils that regularly upload:

• News images
• Event photos
• Community project photos
• Councillor or staff images
• Local landmark images
• Consultation images
• Notice graphics
• Uploaded media library images

It helps clerks keep the website updated without having to remember every technical accessibility step.

Annual subscription

The AI Alt Text Generator is available as an annual subscription.

Cost: £4 per month, billed annually

This is a low-cost way to help maintain accessibility and save administration time throughout the year.

Add AI alt text to your parish council website

Parish Web & Host can install and configure the AI Alt Text Generator for your council website.

Help your website stay accessible, save time for your clerk, and reduce the risk of missing image descriptions.

Contact Parish Web & Host today to add AI-generated alt text to your council website.