Les Bessant

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WordPress 3.5 introduced a new feature – when images are inserted into posts, the title attribute is not included in the image tag. This was done with the best of intentions relating to accessibility, as documented on <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18984" rel="nofollow ugc">Trac</a>
Unfortunately, this causes problems for some Lightbox plugins, quite apart from stopping image tooltips from appearing.
This plugin hooks into the media_send_to_editor filter and inserts the image title into the html inserted into the post.
The original author, LesBessant, sadly passed away and in the meantime the original plugin was closed. I plan to keep the plugin up to date whenever an update breaks it.

IMG Title Restore

Restores the title attribute when images are inserted into posts

Restores WordPress default functionality prior to version 4.7 where image ALT attributes were automatically generated and put into the HTML code. The ALT attributes were generated from the Caption (if it exists) else from the Title (if it exists) of the image in the Media Library. This plugin utilises Titles in generating ALT text, but does not utilise Captions. The Title used by this plugin, is the main Title of the image as found in the Media Library, not the HTML TITLE attribute of the image (that is something else, which this plugin ignores).

Automatic image ALT attributes

This feature is a time saver for me as my site is image oriented.

Thanks

Automatically generates ALT attributes in image HTML. Restoring WordPress < 4.7 functionality.

IMG Title Restore vs Automatic image ALT attributes