Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off

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."

Comments

Re:stupid

[Thry]

I was about to tell you to take advantage of the audio alternative offered by many services, then I went and tried a reCAPTCHA audio test to make sure I knew what I was talking about.

I apologise for even considering telling you to use those.

Re:stupid

[icebike]

If taking a couple seconds to answer a CAPTCHA is too much effort, I probably don't really care what you have to say in the comment section.

Or a couple of minutes considering most capchas are illegible.

This!

More and more, captchas take two or three attempts.
(Disclaimer: IMHO, I'm not senile, dyslexic, a horrible typist. blind. Your opinion may vary).

I suspect some sites are intentionally forcing a fail once or twice, at least occasionally, especially when you enter the word
in a timely interval. Bots probably give up after two failures, and they probably answer quickly.

So implementers make it more and more restrictive and throw in bogus failures.