Hello,
I apologize for the inconvenience you are facing with the Alt text not working correctly in Rank Math despite entering it for your images and enabling the “Add missing ALT attributes” setting.
To troubleshoot this issue, please ensure that you have followed these steps correctly:
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Make sure that the Alt text is correctly entered for each image. You can verify this by checking the Alt text directly in the image settings.
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Ensure that the “Add missing ALT attributes” setting is enabled in Rank Math. You can find this setting in Rank Math SEO → General Settings → Images.
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Check the Alt attribute format in Rank Math to ensure it is correctly configured. You can set the naming format for the Alt tag in the Alt attribute format field.
If you have completed these steps and the issue persists, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from our support team will assist you further.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Best regards,
Rank Math Support
Sources:
How to Automatically Set Alt and Title Attributes for Images
Image SEO Options in Rank Math
How to Show Images in the Search Results » Rank Math
Score 100/100 With Rank Math Post Tests » Rank Math
Hi,
I have already done the above mentioned things but the RankMath plugin is still not taking the Alt text for few of the images. Please suggest what needs to be done?
Regards,
Saurabh
Hello,
Could you please share the affected URL so we can check the images as well?
Meanwhile, please note that the Add missing ALT attributes and Add missing TITLE attributes options in Rank Math are not added to your images in the media gallery as the feature works only on the fly (applied on the front end when your page loads on the browser).
Also, images added by your WordPress theme or page builder to various sections like your sliders, thumbnails, icons, etc. will not be affected as they only apply to images added directly to your content.
Looking forward to helping you.
Hi Reinelle,
Please see the below affected URLs –
https://staging-106d-lightupdotin.wpcomstaging.com/wpcontent/uploads/2023/08/6ea5b4a88f0b4f91945b40499aa0af00.webp
https://staging-106d-lightupdotin.wpcomstaging.com/wpcontent/uploads/2023/08/c7d035ba85f6486680c2facedecdcf4d.webp
Pls note – I have added the alternate text of the above images in the Media library also, still RankMath is not able to find out the Alt text in the images.
Please suggest.
Regards,
Saurabh
Hello,
We checked the source code of your site and found that truly those images have no alt text. It appears those images are not in the main content area of the page (post_content) but in the mobile menu of the ElementsKit widget. Rank Math only reads the image markups added to the post_content in the database to add the alt attributes.
You will need to contact the ElementsKit plugin support on how to add alt text to their mobile navigation menu.
We found a similar scenario although from a different Elementor addon where this issue was treated: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-alt-attribute-in-navigation-menu-mobile/
Hope that helps, and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
