Re: hcaptcha, is A curiosity about multi-user systems?

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Yeah, I have had challenges trying to understand some of what I heard, 
whether it is just background words, or something I need to include with my 
response to the audio challenge.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Lewellen" <klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Glenn K0LNY" <glennervin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Jookia" <contact@xxxxxxxxxx>; "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx>; 
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Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2021 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: hcaptcha, is A curiosity about multi-user systems?


Interestingly enough on this site's accessibility page they seem to
understand the deal about audio challenges being a problem too.
However, the more widely used platforms like Cloudflare become, the more
closed doors.



On Tue, 2 Mar 2021, Glenn K0LNY wrote:

> I don't even know why they offer visual and audio captchas, when I have 
> come
> across sites that just ask a basic question like:
> what is five plus seven?
> Apparently this keeps out computer hacks too.
> Glenn
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karen Lewellen" <klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Jookia" <contact@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2021 8:04 PM
> Subject: Re: hcaptcha, is A curiosity about multi-user systems?
>
>
> Granted the issues captchas pose are extensive for several populations.
> still, your idea of changing the user agent, no matter how reasonable,
> seems to  sort of make you a hacker.  All the while this service continues
> to misrepresent what access means, and if their twitter conversations on
> the topic are any indication, limit access to a very small box.
> there must be a more direct solution to this situation?
> Kare
>
>
>
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2021, Jookia wrote:
>
>> When hCaptcha first came out I went on CloudFlare's site and ranted
>> about how bad the accessibility was for screen readers. They seemed to
>> have fixed it a bit since then, but I don't think they really test or
>> put much effort in to it.
>>
>> Ultimately CAPTCHAs exclude anyone that is worse off than an AI. I hate
>> it.
>>
>> You could try setting your browser agent to some Windows thing, that
>> might help.
>>
>> Jookia.
>>
>>
>
> 





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