Add functionality to localize asset's ALT text

[Krzemo]

Its pretty self explanatory ...
There is no clean way to translate assets alts now.

[edalzell]

Trying to think of a workaround, only thing I can think of is to create separate fields for each locale and then check the locale in the template and grab the correct field.

[afonic]

+1 for this, this should work as the fields are Localizable.

[jasonvarga]

Please give the issue a 👍 reaction rather than saying +1

[vaites]

Until this functionality is implemented, I think that the possibility of marking as translatable the fields that are added in the blueprints of the assets should be disabled.

[zehfred]

Can you provide an update on this FR?

[jackmcdade]

Until it gets added to the Roadmap there's no way to give an ETA. This one is climbing the ranks though, stay tuned – it's about to make it to the list.

[zehfred]

Awesome! ❤️

[GertTimmerman]

Until it gets added to the Roadmap there's no way to give an ETA. This one is climbing the ranks though, stay tuned – it's about to make it to the list.

Hope it is climbing harder and harder, because we need this functionality. Our web editors are asking for this feature a while now and it is to complex for me to make a PR request for this.

[afonic]

Hey @GertTimmerman if it helps at all, this is how we handled this.

We edited the Asset blueprint and added the alt text for each language using a handle like "alt_handle", where "handle" is the site handle. For example "alt_english", alt_greek", "alt_german" etc.

Then in the frontend we created a simple tag to get the correct language for the captions / alt text:

<?php

namespace App\Tags;

use Statamic\Tags\Tags;

class AltText extends Tags
{
    /**
     * The {{ alt_text }} tag.
     *
     * @return string|array
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $image = $this->params->get('image');
        return $image->get('alt_'.$this->context->get('site'));
    }

}

and then we call it in the template like so: {{ alt_text :image="main_image" }} (if main_image is an asset field)

Hope this helps!