Currently, as SEOWRITING developers are aware, keywords are being placed into the Alt text for images, and though this is a good SEO practice, it could be improved as a 'best' SEO practice by using a description of what the image content is.
Before publishing my articles, I see a description of what the image looks like on this website's editor. Unfortunately, when I publish the article, those descriptive terms are not included in the Alt text of the published image.
As you may be aware, alternative (Alt) Text is meant to convey the “descriptive what” of the image and how it relates to the content of a document or webpage. It is read aloud to users by screen reader software, and it is indexed by search engines. It also displays on the page if the image fails to load, as in this example of a missing image.
Google ranks Alt image text high and they've talked extensively about how using it is the best SEO practice. Because of its importance to Google Image Search, it is considered a ranking factor.
Thanks in advance for the potential inclusion of this suggestion in the roadmap.