Adding alt text to images within a wordpress slider

I am looking to add Alt text to slider images. I was able to add the line:

alt ="<?= $alt = get_post_meta(get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID), '_wp_attachment_image_alt', true); ?>"

This line pulled in the alt text for the photos but it is the same alt text for all the photos within the slider. It doesn't seem to loop each alt text to each photo. Below is the code that pulls the images.

<?php $_gallery = get_field('project_gallery_photos'); ?>

        <?php if( $_gallery ) { ?>
            <div class="_featured-images">
                <div class="_slider">
                    <?php foreach( $_gallery as $_img ): ?>
                        <div class="_slide">
                            <img src="<?= $_img['photo']['sizes']['project-images']?>" alt ="<?= $alt = get_post_meta(get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID), '_wp_attachment_image_alt', true); ?>"/>

                            <?php if( $_img['photo_title'] || $_img['photo_caption'] ) { ?>
                                <div class="_caption">
                                    <?= $_img['photo_title']? '<b>'.$_img['photo_title'].'</b><br>': '' ?>
                                    <?= $_img['photo_caption'] ?>
                                </div>
                            <?php } ?>
                        </div>
                    <?php endforeach; ?>
                </div>

Solution

What you're pulling in as the meta description for the "featured image" of the current global $post, which the gallery photos appear to be Advanced Custom Field for.

What you should be pulling in instead would be one of those settings from the foreach() loop. If you're using the standard ACF Pro Gallery field, the alt attribute is included at the first level of the array.

alt="<?= esc_attr( $_img['alt'] ); ?>"

Otherwise, you should be able to use print_r( $_img ); to find the attribute you need, for instance if your $_img contains a 'photo' key, you may need to use:

alt="<?= esc_attr( $_img['photo']['alt'] ); ?>"

Documentation & Function Reference

Function	Linked Description
`foreach()`	The foreach construct provides an easy way to iterate over arrays. foreach works only on arrays and objects, and will issue an error when you try to use it on a variable with a different data type or an uninitialized variable. There are two syntaxes:
`print_r()`	Prints human-readable information about a variable
`esc_attr()`	Escaping for HTML attributes
ACF Gallery	The Gallery field provides an interactive interface for managing a collection of attachments.