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WP PlugIndex currently records Polly Alt version 1.5.0 as active, updated 24d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
Polly Alt is an accessibility-first WordPress plugin that analyzes media library uploads using live Gemini AI models to generate concise, active-voice, descriptive alternative text (alt text) variations around 125 characters. It introduces purposeful “benevolent friction” via automated compliance guards to prevent publishing or leaving media screens with missing alt text, combined with keyboard-friendly selection menus and educational context for administrators.
Core Features
Multi-Subject AI Variations: Automatically queries Gemini AI to produce multiple distinct alt text angles focusing on separate visual elements for users to choose between, rather than assuming a single “correct” answer.
Exit & Upload Compliance Guards: Warns you if you are navigating away from media rows, Gutenberg image blocks, or Elementor panels while an image lacks alternative descriptions.
Smooth Keyboard Interactivity: Crafted with total:focus-visible compatibility. Modals capture, trap, and restore structural keyboard focus seamlessly for screen reader and keyboard-only users.
Educational Training Advisories: Displays assistive structural context alongside generated suggestions to train site admins on proper visual description standards.
Clean Decks Mode: Optionally wipes messy camera-generated attachment Titles (like IMG_4829.jpg ) when an explicit AI description selection is made.
External services
This plugin connects to external APIs to analyze image media and generate descriptions:
Google Gemini API: Sends image data and surrounding post text to Google’s Gemini models when generating alt text suggestions.
Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
alt text
gemini ai
image descriptions
a11y
accessibility
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.0 · PHP 7.4
Update activity8 Oct 202624d ago
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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex
Recent tracked changes
Version1.4.1→1.5.0
WordPress compatibility7.1.2→7.1.3
Version1.4.0→1.4.1
Version1.0.0→1.4.0
WordPress compatibility7.1→7.1.2
Tracking & source
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