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.
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...