New: AI-Generated Alt Text for Effortless Accessibility

Published
May 15, 2025
Written by
Amrutha Varshinii
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Your social wall tells a story, but do you know if everyone can access it? With website inclusivity becoming table stakes, there is now an increasing need to make it accessible for every type of user. Which is why we have built something timely, to help your website tick off those compliance boxes. Read on! 

The era of accessibility is here 

We’re excited to introduce AI Alt Text, a new feature now live in Flockler—designed to help make your content more accessible and keep you ahead of evolving web standards.

From products shot, to customer UGC, and updates from your social handles, Flockler’s AI Alt Text will add human-quality descriptions automatically to this content—no manual effort needed. This provides website visitors with visual impairments or reading difficulties the context they need, especially when using screen readers.

Why are we launching this now? Say hello to EAA

A critical law, the European Accessibility Act (EAA), is coming into effect on June 28, 2025—just about a month away. The goal? To ensure that people with disabilities aren’t excluded from accessing digital products and services, including websites, apps, and online tools like social feeds!

If your organization serves users in the EU, this applies to you. 

The EAA points to an internationally recognized set of rules called the ‘WCAG 2.1 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)’. These guidelines outline exactly how to structure and present digital content to make it accessible for everyone.

And WCAG highlights Alt Text as one of the key markers of ‘accessibility’ on websites with visual elements like buttons, images, and social feeds. A simple miss in adding context to these elements can potentially result in legal risk and fines, besides risking the exclusion of many website visitors.

By using an image recognition AI engine to automatically generate Alt Text, Flockler is going to help ensure that your business can:

  • Protect your brand from compliance pitfalls
  • Deliver an inclusive experience to all visitors
  • Meet EAA deadlines without scrambling
  • Save time on manual website optimization 
  • Meet global web standards while boosting SEO 

How to get AI Alt Text on Flockler

AI-powered Alt Text is automatically available for all customers on Business, Pro, Premium, and Agency plans—no setup needed. It’s built right into the Feed creation workflow.

Note: If you’re on the Lite or Basic plan, you can still add alt text manually to make content more accessible, only the AI automation is reserved for higher-tier plans. 

Flockler's new AI Alt Text module
Flockler's new AI Alt Text creates descriptions automatically for images and video thumbnails

Why this changes the accessibility game

Adding meaningful alt text to web images has always been important. Now, with AI-powered accessibility tools, we’re making it dramatically easier to ensure every image is screen reader–friendly. You no longer need to worry about oversight from human errors, or the manual task of checking and optimizing brand content or UGC posts from followers on your Feed to ensure it passes the accessibility check.

Now you get,

  1. Consistency at scale: same brand voice, every time
  2. Zero manual tagging: free up hours each week
  3. Built-in quality checks: human-in-loop review for edge cases

Your team can now leverage AI to do the leg-work, while you stay focused on doing what you do best—telling your brand story! 


Want to see how it works before you consider an upgrade? Book a quick chat with us. 

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