Google's "Blogger" Accessibility

While blog owners have all the best intentions, we don't always get around to ensuring our blogs meet usability and accessibility standards. This is just one of those truisms that blog platform vendors, like Blogger, should accept and workaround to help us from ourselves.

Here are two quick, incremental feature updates Blogger could implement to help improve the accessibility of the blogs it supports:

1. Update the "Add Image" feature and enable bloggers to provide alt or longdesc tags from within the same window without modifying the template code directly. This incremental feature, if added, would make it easier for screen readers to provide visually impaired individuals with richer, contextual meaning and improve the user experience.
2. Parse the height and width attributes from the image added and to ensure consistent performance across browsers and their assistive technology or user agent plugins.