Plan Alt-Text Production Days From Images and Minutes — Free
Alt text is written at a pace, not a wish. Multiply the images by the minutes a real description takes, divide by the minutes available per day, and book the days before the launch date does it for you.
The proof surface
Alt-text decision boards sort which images need which kind of description. This plans the production run behind those decisions — the days the writing will actually take at the minutes per image you sustain.
Why the flat version breaks
Budgeting from the fastest image type
Charts and maps set the pace of a batch more than the product shots do.
Writing alt text after the content freeze
Descriptions written under launch pressure are the ones screen-reader users remember for the wrong reason.
Translating the caption into an alt
Alt text carries the information; the caption can carry the flourish.
How to work the alt text receipt
Using the decisions already made on the alt-text board: content images described, decorative images correctly empty. Rows are pages or batches.
A plain product description runs one to two minutes; a chart, map or instructional diagram takes several, because the description carries the information. Use your own last batch as the clock.
The minutes of careful description work the day genuinely holds. Ninety minutes is a real budget beside other duties.
The receipt reports production days per batch and totals them, flagging any batch past a working week. A hundred and twenty images at four minutes each needs eight hours — five and a third days of ninety-minute budgets, and the launch date cannot borrow them.
What the alt text receipt replaces
| Question | Before | Visible working |
|---|---|---|
| Budgeting from the fastest image type | Charts and maps set the pace of a batch more than the product shots do. | Measure the minutes per image |
| Writing alt text after the content freeze | Descriptions written under launch pressure are the ones screen-reader users remember for the wrong reason. | Set the daily writing budget |
| Translating the caption into an alt | Alt text carries the information; the caption can carry the flourish. | Put the longest batch first |
A local arithmetic aid replaces hand calculation, not expert review. No paid AI service is needed.
Run it on the samples, right here
FIRST-LOAD
Input is processed locally and a draft is saved automatically in this browser profile when storage is available. Reset to sample clears that draft; Pro history has its own clear button. A state link encodes your inputs in its URL: share only non-sensitive rows. Browser history, clipboard and anyone receiving the link may retain it. Optional AI use below leaves this device; it is not required.
Production arithmetic on the counts and minutes you supply. Not an accessibility certification or conformance determination; alt-text practice follows your organisation’s accessibility standard and, above all, the needs of the people using it.
Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the alt text receipt: your page or batch | images needing alt text | minutes per alt text stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.
Go deeper: the companion app files the same reading as a till receipt with a tear-off foot
The article demo above runs without limits. The companion app keeps a local history, exports the rows as CSV, prints the alt text receipt reading, and holds your drafts on this device — one free run, then $ 4 one-time for the layer that keeps filing.
The alt text receipt reading is complete for free. The optional $4 layer adds print, row CSV and the last five local reading summaries; it does not add hidden answers. Checkout is not configured yet; the article demo remains unlimited.
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Production arithmetic on the counts and minutes you supply. Not an accessibility certification or conformance determination; alt-text practice follows your organisation’s accessibility standard and, above all, the needs of the people using it.
What this is built on
- Method: The minutes of careful description work the day genuinely holds. Ninety minutes is a real budget beside other duties.
- All sample records are invented examples. The app does not fetch measurements, policies, files or personal records.
- Google’s official pricing page, fetched 2026-09-29, lists free-tier access including AI Studio. Optional formatting only; limits and availability can change. Free-tier content may be used to improve products. Never paste private records there.
Before: Charts and maps set the pace of a batch more than the product shots do. After: the alt text receipt shows the working beside each named row so the reader can change the assumption and inspect the consequence.
Optional AI formatting, not calculation
For this alt text receipt, use the free AI Studio interface only if available to you, with no paid API key. Manual entry completes the same workflow for free. Supply only fictional or non-sensitive notes. Review its output against the source; never paste unresolved questions into the numeric rows.
Format my non-sensitive notes for a alt text receipt. Return plain rows only: page or batch | images needing alt text | minutes per alt text. Preserve supplied quantities exactly. Do not guess missing values; list questions separately. Do not calculate or add advice. I will check every row before pasting into the local tool.
Accepted schema: page or batch | images needing alt text | minutes per alt text. No AI response is executed as code.