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jainilnagar/alt-scout
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A lightweight Craft CMS plugin that helps editors find image assets missing native alternative text.

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Alt Scout for Craft CMS
=======================

[](#alt-scout-for-craft-cms)

A lightweight accessibility audit helper for finding Craft image assets missing native alternative text.

Features
--------

[](#features)

- Control panel section: **Alt Scout**
- Lists image assets with empty native `alt` text
- Filter by asset volume
- Export missing-alt assets as CSV
- Dashboard widget with missing-alt count
- Setup guidance when native Alternative Text is not visible/configured
- No third-party API, no heavy queues, no external services

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- Craft CMS 4.x or 5.x
- PHP 8.0.2+

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

You can install Alt Scout via the plugin store, or through Composer.

### Composer

[](#composer)

You can also add the package to your project using Composer and the command line.

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    ```
     cd /path/to/project

    ```
2. Then tell Composer to require the plugin, and Craft to install it:

    ```
     composer require jainilnagar/alt-scout && php craft plugin/install alt-scout

    ```

### Craft Plugin Store

[](#craft-plugin-store)

To install Alt Scout, navigate to the Plugin Store section of your Craft control panel, search for Alt Scout.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Go to **Alt Scout** in the Craft control panel.

The plugin scans image assets where Craft's native `alt` value is empty. You can filter by volume and export the result as CSV.

Important: enable Craft's native Alternative Text field
-------------------------------------------------------

[](#important-enable-crafts-native-alternative-text-field)

Alt Scout checks Craft's native asset `alt` value.

If you do not see an Alternative Text input when editing assets, add it to each asset volume field layout:

```
Settings → Assets → Volumes → Your Volume → Field Layout

```

Then drag Craft's native **Alternative Text** field into the layout and save.

Development checks
------------------

[](#development-checks)

```
composer check-cs
composer fix-cs
composer phpstan
composer analyse
```

Roadmap ideas
-------------

[](#roadmap-ideas)

- Asset index source/filter integration
- Optional warnings on asset edit screens
- Custom alt quality rules such as minimum length or filename-like alt text
- Support for reporting custom legacy alt fields before migration

License
-------

[](#license)

MIT

###  Health Score

37

—

LowBetter than 81% of packages

Maintenance98

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity2

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity38

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

8d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ef2c8d45962aa0b832bf61e7d143c743946eb7fcb137b20a4973c51065350d3f?d=identicon)[jainilnagar](/maintainers/jainilnagar)

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Top Contributors

[![jainilnagar](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/56784985?v=4)](https://github.com/jainilnagar "jainilnagar (2 commits)")

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Tags

craft-plugincraft4craft5craftcmsimagesAuditassetsaccessibilityCraftcraftcmsalt text

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