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Anti-Spam Webforms Leave Out The Blind
geekee writes "An article on CNET claims that a technique whereby a user enters a code word displayed in an image in order to register for a service such as an e-mail account discriminates against the blind. Advocacy groups for the blind are even hinting at lawsuits against companies using this practice. A proposed audio workaround for the blind still has problems since it has to be garbled to the point where most people can't understand it to prevent a computer from recognizing the letters. Brings up some interesting issues surrounding the Turing test."
It discriminates against people such as yourself.
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
I am still waiting for the car that drives itself. Commuting anywhere is a wicked pain. I don't know how you got modded up though. what you said, no matter how you qualify it still makes you an ass.
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> It's not illegal to discriminate against stupid
> people. At least, not yet.
Actually, it is. That's what the minimum wage law is about.
And no, this is not a troll.
"Has [being a kidnapped teenage girl, raped repeatedly for months] changed you?" - Katie Couric to Elizabeth Smart
At a whopping 0.4% of the population, the blind are an extremely small minority. While I am sensitive to the need for somethings that everyone should be accessible to, this is not a need. If they desire change, start coding and stop talking. Come up with a better solution and implement it. The world's web pages can't center around every group of people, but merely the largest, widest audience. It's not all about you people. Life is a struggle, get over it.