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Anti-Spam Webforms Leave Out The Blind

Posted by timothy on from the turning-a-deaf-eye dept.

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."

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  1. Monitors. by mgs1000 · · Score: 2, Troll

    Monitors discriminate against the blind. They should be banned.

    1. Re:Monitors. by SoupIsGoodFood_42 · · Score: 0, Troll
      Insightful? What the fuck? Are people here really this stupid?

      There are alturnatives to monitors, idiot. How the fuck do you think they get on the web in the first place?

      The problem here, obviously, is there is no alturnative, for something that is rather trivial.

  2. What about road signs? by valkraider · · Score: 0, Troll

    We should get rid of Road signs - they discriminate against the blind as well.

  3. In other news. by eluusive · · Score: 0, Troll

    ....Deaf people are suing websites for their new audible anti-spam test.