[DanBC]

EDIT: this post is grumpier than I meant it to be! Sorry.

Imagine you have images turned off. You visit one of the sites. Obviously it's unusable because images are controls, but that's okay. But you notice that they're using a font colour that is very close to the background colour (eg light-medium blue on medium-blue) and then wanting to load an image in the background (white) that would provide the contrast.

You can't tell anyone because minimum karma requirements prevent making a meta-post.

Bug reports from naive users are probably horrible, but still, how many hoops do you want bug-reporters to jump through?

See this example for a hostile response to a reasonable question where it's assumed that people visiting the site need the buttons -- they don't. Most people will be reading questions and answers and will not have accounts.

http://meta.christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/4120/is...

[jaydles]

The problem here appears to be that it's hard to report that the site's readability is poor with images turned off in your browser, in large part because the interface elements needed to do so (buttons) have images associated with their containers, etc.

We never want to make it harder than it has to be to share bugs or suggestions, and we do want to help as many people as we can. We especially want to help those trying to give us feedback to improve the product. The challenge is always prioritization. Today, the number of folks browsing without images is a very small percentage. We definitely want them to be able to benefit from users content, and ideally, we'd love it if they could post and report bugs, too, but it's just lower priority than some other places (where we can surely improve as well).