Two comments about CAPTCHA taken from the 2019 W3C Technical Note on CAPTCHA inaccessibility: http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest 1.) It's not just blind people who require consideration, eg. there are people with other disabilities that are likely to encounter barriers whatever the CAPTCHA approach. 2.) CAPTCHA must, and can be eliminated with more modern strategies. These are also explored in our doc. Best, Janina Glenn K0LNY writes: > 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. > > > > -- Janina Sajka https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
