In particular, the task of adding media to a post has a number of obstacles that make it nearly impossible for those using speech recognition software.

Seriously. Are we that politically correct now that we care about the 0.0000000000001% that will actually use this? What a waste of resources.

Blind people adding images to their WP site? Yeah....that sounds about right.

"Here's a selfie of me at.....oh....wait....that's a picture of the ceiling...DOH."