A #featureRequest for the blog is to have alt text on all blog feeds to help with SEO. If you look now, the recent posts feed on the bottom of posts, the main blog page, and any of the blog feeds, you will see that none of the images have alt text. By just making the alt text the title of the blog post automatically, that would help greatly with SEO.
Here is partially the code for an item in the main blog feed.
<article class="_3lZFR _3NyoV _2yqBc blog-post-description-font blog-text-color blog-card-background-color blog-card-border-color post-list-item blog-post-homepage-hover-container blog-post-homepage-border-color blog-post-homepage-link-hashtag-hover-color blog-post-homepage-post-container blog-post-homepage-background-color" tabindex="0" style="border-width:1px" data-hook="post-list-item"> <div style="height:165px;min-height:165px" class="_1KR9G"> <a href="https://www.raisingourtribe.org/post/homeschool-graduation" target="_top" class="blog-link-hover-color"> <div class="_3RKAW" style="width:290px;height:165px" data-hook="post-list-item-image"> <img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2e6263_f753e8091a8a4abaa267b10fb218a7d8~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_640,al_c,q_80/file.png" style="filter: none;-webkit-filter: none;" class="_19xXY"> </div></a> </div> <div class="_8noOb _3NyoV _2yqBc post-list-item-wrapper blog-post-homepage-description-font blog-post-homepage-description-color blog-post-homepage-description-fill"> <div style="font-size:12px" class="blog-post-description-font blog-post-homepage-description-font"> <div class="_1bO86 _1ujW4 blog-post-metadata-font post-header"> <div class="_5bxnE"> <a href="#"> <div class="_33LjI blog-text-color blog-link-hover-color avatar blog-post-text-color"> <span class="_2iDLv avatar-image"> <div class="_1wPNJ fluid-avatar-image" style="background-image:url(https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1bf8c6_a4a4d1a7b9d7490292cd89058495bddb~mv2_d_3365_5047_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png)" data-hook="avatar-image"></div></span>
As you can see in just one item for the blog feed, there are two images with no alt text. The first one is the main image and the second one I believe in the authors image. This is also the same case on the recent blog posts feed on the post page as well as all custom feeds.
The alt text for the main image can be the post title and the alt text for the author's image could just be their name. Pretty simple and would improve SEO a ton.
Hi patrick, thanks for your feedback.
We definitely understand the importance of your request and will add it to our wishlist.
All of the feeds need it including the main blog page, recent posts, and the widgets. Thanks!