id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
13581	Config setting to make image alt attribute default to base filename	Steve James		"I keep reading that Google is going to get more and more picky about page content as relates to SEO.  For images, they need to have the alt attribute set.

Unfortunately, in my case, since the vast majority of my users are not technically inclined, telling them to make sure they set the alt attribute for images they insert in the editor is a losing proposition.  It is just not something that many of them want to fiddle with, even though they may later complain that their website does not show up at the top of search results.  ;-)

It would be helpful if the editor could provide an assist in the future in the form of a configurable default for image alt attributes. (a default alt) I was thinking this default for the alt attribute could be the base filename for uploaded or pasted images.  Ideally, this ""default alt"" would be shown in the relevant dialogs where it could serve to prompt the user to update it with a better value.  Obviously, the default alt's may not be very descriptive, but I would think they are better than no alt attribute at all.

I think there are probably also some other things of this nature that the editor could do in the future to help with SEO.  (Examples: checking whether links that are inserted are bad/broken, preventing or flagging hidden text, etc.) Because you are providing a mechanism to edit user content that I (and other developers) do not necessarily control, having some SEO-related configuration settings to help make user's content more SEO-friendly would be awesome.  Then maybe they will stop complaining to me about why their websites do not show up at the top of Google. ;-D"	New Feature	closed	Normal		UI : Dialogs		wontfix