Most of the images on a club or community site arrive without a caption. Someone uploads twenty match photos, gives each a title in the editor because the editor asks for one, and the title goes nowhere a visitor can see it. Screen readers get an empty description, search engines get a filename, and the person in the photograph gets no name.
What we added
Apricot Manage now has an opt-in caption mode. Add one class to a section and every image inside it gets a visible caption drawn from the title the editor already asked for. The same works for background images on columns, where the title is carried as a data attribute and rendered underneath.
Nothing about the editing flow changes. The field was always there; it is now shown.
Why opt-in
A hero image with a caption under it looks wrong, and a product grid does not want twelve captions. So the mode is switched on per section, not per site, and a designer decides where captions belong: galleries, news articles, team pages.
What it is for
Accessibility first: an image's title now reaches the people who cannot see the image. Then the small human things. A match report where the photographs say who scored. A committee page where the faces have names. A gallery that can be searched by what is in it.
It is available on every site on the platform. Ask us to turn it on for a section and we will.