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by Bonooru 2679 days ago
I think the argument boils down to "how do you fill out the captcha if you use a screen reader"?
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They already have an accommodations for the visually impaired with the audio captchas.

https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/6175971?hl=en

If you score low enough on their automatic checks, they refuse to serve you the audio challenge.
What about the deafblind?
What's their solution for any other website? It seems like they'd have a very difficult time accessing ANY site.

In a quick search it seems like NoCaptcha is the accessible answer for the issues with regular Captchas. For the most part it seems to work, most of the complaints here seem to stem from people trying to actively block some of the evaluation metrics used by the checkbox (cookies,javascript,user strings,fingerprinting,etc) which makes them look very different from normal traffic which kind of by necessity makes them look a lot more like bots.

https://simplyaccessible.com/article/googles-no-captcha/

>which makes them look very different from normal traffic which kind of by necessity makes them look a lot more like bots.

But if they are doing so because they are disabled, and the difference means they receive a worse experience, may result in an ADA complaint (especially if a government service falling under section 508 is involved).

Braille interfaces are a thing.