Alt text that writes itself when you publish

Wire the reverse into your CMS webhook so every image uploaded from today forward arrives with alt text already on it.

Backfilling a catalogue is a project you do once. Wiring the webhook is the thing that stops the backlog ever coming back, which is worth more than the backfill.

Why this will not look generic: Each line is written from the image that was actually uploaded, at the moment it is uploaded, so it describes that photograph rather than the post it happens to sit in.

What you walk away with

• A short alt attribute on every new image, automatically
• A longer description stored alongside for captions and transcripts
• An accessibility backlog that stops growing

Typical run: every image, forever. Rate limited to 60 requests a minute per account, so a bulk import should queue rather than fire in parallel.

What the reverse actually gives you

Point it at: The single image that was just uploaded to the CMS.

What comes back (representative example): Two fields come back for the image that was just uploaded, not a paragraph. Short alt, sized for the attribute at under a hundred and twenty-five characters: 'Two engineers at a standing desk reviewing a dashboard on a wall-mounted display.' Long description, between a hundred and fifty and two hundred and fifty characters for a caption or a transcript: 'Two people stand at a desk in an open-plan office, both looking toward a large wall-mounted screen showing a line chart. Late afternoon light comes through blinds to the left, striping the floor.' Both describe this photograph. Neither mentions the article it was uploaded for, which is the usual failure of alt text written by whoever wrote the post.

Things you would never have thought to type:

• held under 125 characters so screen readers do not truncate
• two lengths, one for the attribute and one for a caption
• what the light is doing, which sighted readers get for free
• no mention of the article, only the photograph

What you change: Nothing. Review and ship. The value is that the ten thousandth one is still about its own image.

How it works

1. Call it from the upload hook (In your code) - One request per upload. Store both fields; the short one is the attribute, the long one is for captions and transcripts.

Cost and time

This workflow runs at 1 reverse + about 1 minute. Your result carries automatically from each step into the next, so there is no re-uploading between tools. Reverses are billed from your reverse meter and generation steps from your AI Credits, both bundled in every pay-as-you-go credit pack.

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