Yoast / Yoast/wordpress-seo

[Enhancement] Provide ability to output Image SEO Checks for Caption, Title, Alt-text, and Description fields

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We do look for the Focus Keyphrase in the alt-text and Google has image guidelines here which imply they look around the context of an image to help determine results: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/114016?hl=en

Describe the solution you'd like

Provide ability to output Image SEO Checks for Caption, Title, Alt-text, and Description fields.

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why you think the feature request is something we should consider for the Yoast SEO plugins?

Improve Content SEO

Additional context

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Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Begin by locating the existing image SEO checks and how the plugin handles caption, title, alt-text, and description fields; confirm the intended output and coverage with maintainers. Done means checks are available for all four fields and are covered by the relevant tests.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
php, wordpress
Domain
content
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
28/100

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