Accessibility Updates for Q2 2026

5.x image improvements Simon Leadbetter, from the digital accessibility consultancy Kindera , reached out to us as part of the #AltAtSource campaign . The campaign seeks to improve digital accessibility by reducing friction around populating alt text by harnessing alt text and descriptions stored in XMP/IPTC metadata fields. The campaign centers around encouraging: Hardware vendors to embed image descriptions — either human- and AI-generated — in an image’s metadata Image libraries to generate alt text automatically, and allow editors to edit and validate these descriptions CMS providers to au