[bahador]

The author is an artist/illustrator. That is her medium. http://wendymacnaughton.com/

[basil-rash]

I don't think we should tell artists what they can/can't do, but I do think it would be reasonable for the New York Times to enforce that all content they host is made as accessible as reasonably possible, for some definition of that.

This could be made much more accessible by just including appropriate captions, and doing so would benefit a large part of the community.

[mlindner]

An artist and illustrator can use fonts or create their own.

[nkrisc]

Then I would suggest she work on her penmanship. I found it very difficult to read.