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What is this new "T" icon on my images?

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January 29, 2026
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I have an indesign document with a ton of different images, 1 on each page of the doc. I’ve updated a few of these links today and the newly linked updated images have this icon on the bottom left corner which I’ve never seen before. Any idea what this is or what it means? These are not text boxes, there are no primary text frames in this document and no threaded text.

It is definitely attached to the linked image and nothing else, as it moves around with the image when I move the image.

Correct answer Abhishek Rao

Hi everyone,

We’re currently investigating the issue where the “Auto-generate Alt Text” option appears greyed out in Preferences and cannot be toggled. We haven’t been able to reproduce this consistently on our end yet.

If anyone is still facing this issue and would be willing to join a quick debug session with the product team, it would really help us move this forward. Please share your contact number (with country code), email address, and your availability via DM so I can coordinate this further.

Appreciate your help on this.

Abhishek

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Barb Binder

Community Expert

Here are a few more things to add to @Abhishek Rao’s comment (and Abhishek, if anything is incorrect please let me know!):

Auto-Generate Alt Text is on as a default for users with unlimited general AI credits (i.e., Enterprise and Pro (or All Apps) subscriptions).
Auto-Generate Alt Text is off as a default for users with a Single User subscription. Note that enabling it will consume one credit per use and the Single User subscription has 25 credits per month, per user.

If Auto-generate Alt Text is off when you import an image, the T does not appear.
If Auto-generate Alt Text is enabled when you place an image, the T appears. Turning it off for future imports leaves the T in place on the ones placed when it was on.

Examples of the T appearing or not, based on if the feature was enabled when the file was placed.

I haven’t found any global visibility options like we have in View > Extras for the Content Grabber, Live Corners and Anchored Object control.

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hi @Isoneryum,

Thanks for reaching out. What you’re seeing is expected behavior in InDesign 21.2. This is a new feature introduced to support generating alt text for placed images, and the ‘T’ icon indicates that the image is associated with accessibility and alt text handling.

You can learn more about how this works and how to manage it in this article, which walks through the feature in detail: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/alt-text-generation.html
What’s New: New and enhanced features | Latest release of InDesign

Please let me know if this clears things up or if you’re seeing anything unexpected with these images.

Looking forward to your update.

Abhishek

stonepier

Participating Frequently

I wish we could turn it off. I never asked for it to be turned on and now Adobe has decided I need to see it. I can’t even see where you could adjust the tags if you wanted it on. I mean what purpose does this serve when working on a print document.

Frans v.d. Geest

Community Expert

You can turn it off in Preferences ;-)

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