<p>As a test, I just included an image in an answer with a new account:</p>

<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Idhqb.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Idhqb.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p>As you see, you only need 1 reputation -- which everyone gets -- to do that. (Since it's a useless answer, I also deleted it.)</p>

<p>I haven't tested posting questions at this point (I hesitate to spam the site with tests). I'll try to find out for sure whether the limit applies to questions, but it would seem odd to allow a rep 1 user to use images in answers but not questions.</p>

<p>(Taking whuber's comment as encouragement to do so, I'll expand on my earlier comment:)</p>

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<p>In any case, in the past, we've (as in 'we active users') been quite happy to put an image in the post if posters include a link to the image (they're easy to upload to imgur, but any non-dodgy site where you can access the image directly would do). While I haven't had to do that for someone for a long time, I'd be happy to do it any time I saw that it was needed; if a user with sufficient reputation to do so didn't take care of it already (as often happens), a flag would suffice to alert a moderator to the need.</p>

<p>Helping a new user who is taking the trouble to illustrate an aspect of their question is a reasonably pleasant task and it's not like we're overwhelmed with such requests at the moment.</p>
