# Alt Text Display

> Add a context menu to images to show their URL and alt text

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/alt-text-display](https://chrome-stats.com/d/alt-text-display)

## Overview

- **ID:** `alt-text-display`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** codepo8
- **Category:** web-development
- **Daily users:** 62
- **Rating:** 2.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.1
- **Last updated:** 2020-09-04
- **First published:** 2020-09-03
- **Size:** 27 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/alt-text-display/)
- **Website:** [https://christianheilmann.com](https://christianheilmann.com/)

## Description

Alt Text Display is a user-friendly Chrome extension designed to help users quickly test if images on any webpage have alternative text (alt text). By adding a context menu option to images, it allows you to instantly view the image's URL and its alt text, helping developers, editors, and accessibility testers ensure web content is properly descriptive. This tool simplifies the process of verifying image accessibility, making it an essential utility for improving web accessibility compliance and user experience.

## Rankings

- #14,548 — Overall
- #7 — display
- #220 — speech to text

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `activeTab`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/alt-text-display)