Pro tip for everybody: do not post any text as images

Never should I receive a Java exception hundreds of lines long as a cut off JPEG file.

Or a screenshot of a Google Sheet missing the information you’re talking to me about.

We made this to be used as a reply when pictures are misused where text would be better:

https://fewer.pics/

I’m disappointed the rendered picture isn’t advanced CSS. I honestly expected that to be the case.

I hope someone accepts this challenge!

It should have been animated.

It should have been a .swf and required a plugin to be installed to see it.

Why ruin the message by writing half of it upside down?

Yep, as the sibling said, it’s to prove the point in a snarky manner. The yellow-on-white color, the wobbling, upside down path of text, the font choice, the unrelated image; all of these serve to make the concept actively hard to process.

Hopefully this sparks a little “wow I wonder if my image of text was also hard to read like I just experienced” moment.

It actually enhances the message by being harder to read.

This guide can help if you still want the code to be pretty: https://www.taniarascia.com/adding-syntax-highlighting-to-co...

Or use vim to convert it to HTML https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/792/how-to-convert-a-...

OCR's come pretty far these days and I can select text off an image with my iPhone processing it locally with a fair bit of success.

It’s also terrible copy-pasting and CMD+F experience.

As long as such 50kB image doesn’t get replaced with 700kB of javascript bundles for coloring code.

I mean, if such coloring it's going to be done, it should be done with HTML/CSS.

For the OP article, for screenreaders perhaps you are sugesting people to use the alt attribute or similar.