[META] Vision for Media Management

Thanks for this post and +1 for bulk uploading.

All the image formatting and AI stuff would indeed be really cool to have but I think at minimum priority needs to be given to enable bulk uploading of images and exif rotation handling when adding images through ckeditor if we want to compete or catch up with something like Wordpress, which has that by default.

In Drupal CMS we are targeting an audience that need a more user-friendly and pre-configured experience and we are offering users to setup the cms in a blog, project or event style way all which potentially involves enriching the content with a lot of images and to be able to upload multiple images and selecting them later within ckeditor through the "Drupal media" button is quite a common use case imo.

From an accessibility standpoint, I think it would be beneficial to explore the use of contextual alt text for images. This issue highlights that the same image can be used in multiple places and so may require different alt text, for example (or may be deemed as decorative in some places). Being able to use a very descriptive alt text in the media browser, but have a more specific one used in the front end, would help make things more accessible rather than just passing the WCAG requirement.

✨ [META] Improve workflows for image alternative text Active outlines some aspects of the issue, but I believe there are others that overlap and address additional parts.

The UX team have been discussing a set of issues around this as can be seen at: 📌 Drupal Usability Meeting 2025-07-11 Active .

I have also created an issue within the AI Alt text to try to get AI to help with being more contextual when generating the Alt text, but the above issues need to be addressed first before AI can be improved.