No, I'm saying that very rarely is the cost of making a website degrade gracefully in this set of circumstances going to be justified economically. There may b

No, I'm saying that very rarely is the cost of making a website degrade gracefully in this set of circumstances going to be justified economically. There may be non-economic arguments, for example making a site more accessible. However, this needs to be balanced against practical concerns. For a government service then sure they should spend the money making it accessible to everyone; for the small startup I work for the cost and maintenance overhead would cripple us. To be fair, I agree that having a text box which needs images is a little strange.