How to Add Alt Text to Roblox Experience Thumbnails

Roblox allows uploaded thumbnails on an experience’s detail page to be given alt text for improved accessibility.

How to Add Alt Text to Roblox Experience Thumbnails

Roblox allows uploaded thumbnails on an experience’s detail page to be given alt text for improved accessibility.

Find the thumbnail settings

1. Open Creator Dashboard and select the experience.
2. Go to Configure → Places and select a place.
3. Select Thumbnails in the left navigation.
4. Open the Experience Detail Page tab.
5. Find the uploaded thumbnail and use its alt-text option to provide the description.

Roblox documents separate Home Page and Experience Detail Page tabs. Uploaded thumbnails in the Experience Detail Page tab can also be reordered or deleted.

Write appropriate alt text

W3C guidance says an informative image should have a short text alternative that conveys its essential information. For each thumbnail, briefly describe the information or purpose that distinguishes it from the other images.

If meaningful words appear only within the thumbnail, include those words in the alternative text. If the same words are already available as nearby real text, W3C’s decision tree recommends an empty alt attribute instead of duplicating them.

Examples of concise descriptions include:

• Players racing sports cars through a neon-lit city
• Winter Event — snow-covered town and ice castle
• Vehicle customization screen with paint and wheel options

Review each thumbnail separately so its description reflects that particular image.