[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #39004: Alt attributes should be searchable in media library

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#39004: Alt attributes should be searchable in media library
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 Reporter:  joedolson                |       Owner:  joedolson
     Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Media                    |     Version:  3.0
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-      |     Focuses:  accessibility,
  tests phase-3-media-triage needs-  |  administration
  design                             |
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Changes (by SirLouen):

 * keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests needs-testing phase-3-media-triage =>
     has-patch has-unit-tests phase-3-media-triage needs-design


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:44 abitofmind]:
 > **Good News:** With the free plugin [https://wordpress.org/plugins
 /media-library-assistant/ Media Library Assistant] you can search the ALT
 text at: Media > Assistant.

 There is
 [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/39004/39004.3.patch a
 patch uploaded 4 years ago] that enables this. The topic discussed here is
 that for a massive number of images, performance issues could appear.

 [https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes
 /class-mla-data-query.php Checking at the plugin code], maybe I'm wrong,
 but I feel the performance issues will be even worst because the query is
 search for each single record in the `postmeta` table, not taking at least
 just the records with meta keys _wp_attachment_image_alt` or
 `_wp_attached_file` as proposed in the patch.

 Despite this plugin does the job, it is not doing it as expected, although
 as @joedolson suggested, we can take the design as a reference for a
 search (with the tick boxes maybe?). I don't love it, but definitely what
 we actually need here to proceed is some design proposals to avoid ending
 with some dirty result.

 Summarizing here, the proposed idea is to add some button like "Advanced"
 search that provides a way to select at least a search selector like ALT-
 TAG. Since its only one search selector for now, maybe just an elegant
 tick-box for Search by Alt Tag, will do the trick?

 [[Image(https://i.imgur.com/spr9Ouw.png)]]

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