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

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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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Javier.D

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Anyone has solved or has Adobe provided a fix for this issue? I’ve sent a lot of PDFs to clients that were just a background with logos and text and they are getting this message every time they hover over the PDF pages: “A white background with a nude figure. AI generated content”.

I want to turn this off. If I want the clients to see a mouse over text, url, or whatever, I have to set that on purpose, Adobe shouldn’t do that on his own.

Thanks in advance for any help!

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Abhishek Rao

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Hi @Javier.D,

Thank you for reaching out, and sorry to hear you're experiencing this issue.

Could you please confirm the exact version of InDesign you're using by navigating to Help > About InDesign?

If you're not already on the latest version, please update to InDesign 21.6 through the Creative Cloud deckesktop app and ch whether the issue with incorrect AI-generated Alt Text still occurs.

Please let us know the results so we can investigate further.

Thanks!

Abhishek

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Javier.D

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Hi Abhishek Rao,

The InDesign version is 21.6. MacOS.
Unchecking the two AI options in Preferences, Quitting ID, reopen and check they are disabled, I open the InDesign document, export the PDF and the problem is still there. Same message over all the pages of the PDF.

Let me know if you need me to test anything else.

Javier

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Abhishek Rao

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

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Mike Witherell

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.

https://trainingonsite.com/indesign-accessibility-alt-text-assistant.html

This should be part of an “Accessibility Preflight System” that checks for many other things, too. Adobe is promising such a feature in the feature called Check Document, currently in beta in October 2026, but promised for release in the upcoming InDesign v22 for 2027.

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/desktop/generative-ai-features/check-document.html

I hope this new feature improves workflow time consumption and strikes a balance between human versus artificial intelligence.

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Mike Witherell

HeyYoJese

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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”

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Dave Creamer of IDEAS

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.

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

NinaCC

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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

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Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

What do you mean “can a human answer”?

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