Changelog
Improvement
Alt text is editable on every image
Images & Media now has an alt text field under every photo in the single-listing editor, a badge on any image missing one, and alt text that survives reordering and changing your primary image. Bulk uploads already accepted alt text, but existing images had no equivalent field in the listing drawer.
That is the honest version of this entry. The backend has accepted alt text since the media pipeline was built, the field was being read out of Etsy and stored, and bulk uploads already let you supply it. What was missing was an input for reviewing or changing the alt text on each image while editing one listing. It has one now.
What is included:
- A text field under every image in the listing drawer, capped at 500 characters to match Etsy’s limit.
- An amber ALT badge on the thumbnail of any image without alt text, so a listing with a gap is visible at a glance rather than requiring you to click through.
- Alt text carried through on newly staged uploads, not just on images already live.
- Alt text preserved when you drag an image to a new position or promote one to primary. Etsy’s image endpoint quietly discards alt text on those operations unless it is resent, which we confirmed by probing it directly, so Everlyst now resends it every time.