How to fix images missing alt bulk on Squarespace Commerce

Steps for Squarespace Commerce

1. Go to Commerce → Products → open each product → click the main product image and any additional images → enter alt text in the 'Alt Text' input that appears.
2. For bulk updates, use Squarespace's import/export (CSV) feature if available on your plan, or use the Squarespace API if you are on an Advanced Commerce plan to push alt text programmatically.

What is images missing alt bulk?

Alt text (alternative text) is a short written description placed inside an image's HTML tag that explains what the image shows. When a page has dozens or hundreds of images missing alt text, it almost always means the root template — the product page layout, collection grid, or blog post design — is generating image tags without the `alt` attribute filled in. Fixing the template fixes every image it produces in one go, rather than editing each image individually.

Google explicitly uses alt text to understand image content and rank images in Google Images search — a meaningful source of free organic traffic for product-heavy stores. Pages where the majority of images have no alt text send a weak content signal to Google, which can suppress rankings for the entire page, not just the images. Beyond SEO, missing alt text is a WCAG 2.1 accessibility failure: screen-reader users — including those with visual impairments — cannot understand your product images at all, exposing your store to accessibility complaints and, in some jurisdictions, legal liability. Fixing this at the template level is a single change with store-wide impact across every page that template renders.

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