Hello. I agree that it should be possible to add ALT in the program.

"One of the fundamental ranking items is if an image has an alt tag." - but I don't agree with that. Where exactly did you find this information?

Here is the official documentationhttps://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guidelines/google-imageshttps://developers.google.com/search/blog/2007/12/using-alt-attributes-smartly Information about ALT is in the section "Use descriptive alt text" which is located after:

1. Create a great user experience
2. Check your page title and description
3. Add structured data
4. Optimize for speed
5. Add good quality photos
6. Include descriptive titles, captions, filenames, and text for images

Note that ALT is mentioned in the following phrases: "Don't embed important text inside images: ... To ensure maximum accessibility of your content, keep text in HTML, provide alt text for images.", "Alt text (text that describes an image) improves accessibility for people who can't see images on web pages, including users who use screen readers or have low-bandwidth connections.

Google uses alt text along with computer vision algorithms and the contents of the page to understand the subject matter of the image. Also, alt text in images is useful as anchor text if you decide to use an image as a link.".

"This is one of the very top items google mentions in SEO - images should have alt tags." - where exactly did you find this information? I am interested in this question and would like to know more about it. Because judging by the Google documentation, this is not the case.

"read carefully please" - what exactly in this text says that alt: "One of the fundamental ranking items"?

"Alt text (text that describes an image) improves accessibility", "Google uses alt text along with computer vision algorithms", "Also, alt text in images is useful as anchor text if you decide to use an image as a link.", "Bad (missing alt text)" - all of this says that alt is important. But not "One of the fundamental ranking items". Moreover, in the documentation, ALT's main role is to improve accessibility for people who can't see images on web pages. 

At the very bottom of the page there is a section (https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guidelines/google-images#and-finally). If you follow the link from the section and search Alt, then you will find https://developers.google.com/search/docs/beginner/seo-starter-guide#usealtattribute I don't see anything in it that would indicate that Alt is "One of the fundamental ranking items".

I still agree that it should be possible to add ALT in the program. But I still don't see any proof that Alt is "One of the ranking fundamental items". The documentation says more than once that alt should be, but not for ranking, but for understanding the image when it is not displayed. Or when a person does not see the image due to their physiological characteristics. That is, to improve accessibility.

Bruce Clay, an SEO guru, ranks ALTS as #5 in importance: #1 Title, #2 Description, #3 Keywords, #4 Headings, #5 ALTS...

Google even ranks your site based on a backlink from another site if the other site has alt tags or not; it is #5 in the "backlink factor" group.

Given how easy it is to put alt tag field in the cart card, this should be a simple fix that will improve rankings instead of penalizes us users of the X5 shopping cart.

Here is a cart item on store powered by shopify..... it includes an alt tag for the image. See file attached

Here is another cart (unknown) that has an alt tag for the cart image. see attached

I think amazon knows a thing or two about shopping carts..... see attached

Tesco UK online cart.... see attached

Here is a top online retailer in Italy: Zalando.  See attached