You can vote/nominate if your current reputation is 150/300/.... Likewise for any badges needed to nominate. For votes, I conducted an experiment (but I can't find a reference to it) where my votes remained visible after my reputation dropped to below 150 (of course, I can't prove they made it to...
@RyanM Not sure who you're talking about, but that user must be an exception. I believe it's somewhat difficult to consistently read lots of posts on a site and have enough domain knowledge to vote on them, but not learn enough to eventually start usefully contributing to the site in at least some small way.
@Glorfindel As far as I know, the user I'm referring to just spends a lot of time on SE and isn't doing anything wrong. You can pick them out by checking a few sites' top voter charts.
@nobody Hmm. The imaginary internet points are definitely not it, given how Geek defined the meta-game as something other than 'contributing in some small way'... and you need to contribute to get those imaginary points! :P
@ShadowWizardSaysNoMoreWar Ah, the reason they were blacklisted is because their previous non-answer was manually reported. Manually reporting someone's post adds them to the blacklist. That report later got NAA feedback, which unlike FP feedback, doesn't remove them from the blacklist.
in order to better understand some accessibility issues I'd like to try some free screen readers. I found this usabilitygeek.com/… but I wonder if there are "canonical" (free) screen readers that are used for testing or discussion purposes?