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Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off

Posted by samzenpus on from the can-you-read-this? dept.

Bismillah writes "CAPTCHA may be popular with webmasters and others running different sites, but it's a source of annoyance to blind and partially sighted people — and dyslexic people and older ones — who often end up being locked out of important websites as they can't read wonky, obfuscated letters any more than spambots can. A campaign in Australia has started to rid sites of CAPTCHA to improve accessibility for everyone."

3 of 558 comments (clear)

  1. Wouldn't it be ironic... by Alejux · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the campaign was taken over by bots?

  2. Re:This is a very hard problem by i+kan+reed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but we value what blind people have to say. "Damn near the entire human race" can go fuck themselves.

  3. Re:Not at all by Obfuscant · · Score: 5, Funny

    You realize that many of the people complaining about captchas are blind, right?

    Easily solved with an appropriate ALT tag, something like "A picture of a person holding a frankfurter in her right hand." In fact, can't all CAPTCHAS be fixed by simple use of the appropriate tag? "A picture of the characters E, Q, 3, 6, T and 9".