---
title: Decide What Each Image Actually Needs Before You Write a Single Alt Text — Free
description: List the images on the page and mark what each one is doing — informative, decorative, a control, text in an image, a chart — and the board shows which ones nobody has decided on yet.
category: accessibility
last_verified: 2026-09-13
freshness: green
published: 2026-09-13
canonical_url: https://gratis-ai.pages.dev/articles/alt-text-decision-board.html
companion_app_url: https://gratis-ai.pages.dev/apps/alt-text-decision-board.html
reading_time_minutes: 4
tags: accessibility, alt-text, audit, wcag, local-first, no-account
---

# Decide What Each Image Actually Needs Before You Write a Single Alt Text — Free

List the images on the page and mark what each one is doing — informative, decorative, a control, text in an image, a chart — and the board shows which ones nobody has decided on yet.

**Free and complete.** This guide is a standalone free tool — no account, no card, anywhere. The only paid option is one optional extra outcome: $4 one-time. Nothing in the free tier is gated.

## Who it's for

Anyone seeking practical 100% free AI workflows — no paid API keys, credit cards, or subscriptions

## What's free

- Unlimited boards, every image classified against the six-job key
- Copy the finished board or the state link to send to the developer
- Starter, course-page and shop-page records included

## Optional paid add-on

**$4 one-time.**

- Printable board for the design review — one page the whole team can pin decisions against — estimate: ~30 minutes saved per review meeting spent arguing about one image
- Saved audit history — keep the previous three boards in this browser to show what changed between releases — estimate: ~20 minutes saved per re-audit
- Alt text column on the paid copy — write the decided alt text beside each row and print the pair together — estimate: ~2 minutes saved per image, across a page of eleven

## Sources & verification

- Tool: GratisAI local-first image decision board (no key, no account)
- Primary source: the free tool itself (local-first, no external dependency)
- Last verification: 2026-09-13 (green)

## Use it

- Interactive guide: https://gratis-ai.pages.dev/articles/alt-text-decision-board.html
- Companion app: https://gratis-ai.pages.dev/apps/alt-text-decision-board.html
- This machine-readable mirror: /mirrors/alt-text-decision-board.md

*Generated free at https://gratis-ai.pages.dev/articles/alt-text-decision-board.html — every guide on GratisAI is a complete, working tool. $0, no account, no card, anywhere.*