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InDesign 21.2 Alt Text Generating Incorrect or NSFW Descriptions for Icons and Images

Forum|Forum|2 months ago
February 2, 2026
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I was unaware that InDesign AI was now creating alt text, and even more surprised that the AI thinks this brown background image has a nude figure in it. Is AI good for anything?

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Community Manager

Community Manager

Hi everyone,

Thanks for reporting this. We understand the concern around incorrect or inappropriate AI-generated Alt Text, and the product team is currently reviewing this behavior.

To help them validate the fix, please share the images or icons where this occurs. If the files are confidential, you can send them to me via DM using Google Drive or Dropbox, and I’ll pass them along to the team.

A similar issue has already been reported, and updates will be shared on that thread:
https://community.adobe.com/questions-671/adobe-indesign-21-2-ai-alt-text-feature-generating-incorrect-or-nsfw-descriptions-for-icons-and-graphics-1551767?postid=7512936#post7512936

Thanks for helping us improve the feature. I’ll share updates once I hear back from the team.

Abhishek

Community Expert

Community Expert

There simply is no substitute for an intelligent human to write alt descriptions. I recommend you turn this feature off by visiting Preferences > Generative AI and turning off both switches.

A better approach to this would be a dialog that shows you each pix and gives opportunity to write any missing alt descriptions. It should be aware of existing alt metadata. And it should give opportunity to choose for epub, or pdf, or both.

This should be part of an Accessible Preflight System (Adobe APS) that checks for many other things, too.

Mike Witherell

Participant

This is also happening to some of the PDFs from my team. They are images of logos with no bg color. but we’re still getting this labeling of “nudes depicted”

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

Community Expert

There is an image there--is it just a BG color? If so, why use an image?

Remove any BG color from the frame to confirm. Click or select Fill Frame Proportionally first in case it is outside the frame.

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)

Participant

Can a human please answer? It’s not about the background color, the problem at hand is the pronographic alt text Indesign generates when it can’t identify the pictures content. I have experienced the same issue

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

Community Expert

What do you mean “can a human answer”?

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)