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You can add alternative text to images in your collections to make available to users via the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) viewer on JSTOR. See our guidelines for writing alt text for recommendations.
Tip: To ensure your images’ alt text is made available in the image viewer when publishing to JSTOR, ensure that “Images” or an image-based Resource Type (ex. “Photographs”, “Paintings”) is selected for images in your collection and mapped in your JSTOR publishing target.
Adding alt text to images
To add alt text to an image:
- In your project, double-click an item to edit it or select an item and select Edit.
- Select the Alt Text tab to view the item's alt text fields.
- For compound objects, you’ll see a separate alt text field for each media file associated with the record.
- Compose your alt text. See our guidelines for writing alt text for recommendations.
- Select Save or Save and close to save your changes to the item.
Note: At this time, adding or importing alt text for images in bulk is not supported.
Downloading alt text
To download alternative text for one or more items:
- In your project, select one or more items from the project view.
- Only items that have alt text will be included in the download. If items without alt text are selected, they will be excluded.
- Open the Download drop-down menu and select Download alt text.
- Optionally, select a file format for your alt text:
- Spreadsheet (XLSX) is the default
- Comma-separated values (CSV)
- Select Download to finish.
The file type of your choice will be downloaded to your browser. Each download contains the following for each item (including each media file associated with a compound object):
- SSID
- Filename
- Page number (for PDFs)
- Alt text