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I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023)

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408 points blindgeek | 6 comments | 18 Nov 24 10:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.418s | source | bottom
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Rastonbury ◴[18 Nov 24 14:46 UTC] No.42172733[source]▶
Some captchas are getting pretty discriminatory, not everyone lives in the West and can identify the objects they are asking you to. Another recent one sticks out where they asked me to pick a shape as the same number of conoids on screen. If you ask people on a street what a conoids I bet a significant amount will give you blank looks

Also at least now I know some people call those markings crosswalks

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1. croes ◴[18 Nov 24 15:18 UTC] No.42173105[source]▶
But on the internet the answer to „what is a conoid“ is just a web search away.

The bigger problem is when other options of a captcha fit in another cultural context.

Taxi colors are an example for that.

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2. Suppafly ◴[18 Nov 24 15:30 UTC] No.42173251[source]▶
>But on the internet the answer to „what is a conoid“ is just a web search away.

When I search, the whole first page of google is essentially "things that are shaped like cones", I have no idea what that would be in response to one of those image captchas that show traffic and buildings.

3. rovr138 ◴[18 Nov 24 16:06 UTC] No.42173699[source]▶
> A conoid is a ruled surface whose rulings are parallel to a plane (called the directrix plane) and intersect a fixed line (called the axis of the conoid) (Gellert et al. 1989, p. 202). Examples include the circular conoid, helicoid, hyperbolic paraboloid, parabolic conoid, Plücker conoid, right circular conoid, Wallis's conical edge, Whitney umbrella, and Zindler conoid. If the axis is perpendicular to the directrix plane, the conoid is called a right conoid (Gray et al. 2006, p. 436).

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Conoid.html

4. gus_massa ◴[18 Nov 24 17:10 UTC] No.42174461[source]▶
I got mathematical surfaces like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conoid To get the correct image I had to search conoid street. Anyway, I guessed they were those red cone shaped things that people put on the street and I'm not sure how they are call even is Spanish (probably conos or balizas).
5. TeMPOraL ◴[18 Nov 24 19:01 UTC] No.42175715[source]▶
> But on the internet the answer to „what is a conoid“ is just a web search away.

Not when it's your search engine that's asking you to identify conoids.

6. joegibbs ◴[19 Nov 24 00:29 UTC] No.42178875[source]▶
Google "conoid" and you'll get a bunch of pictures of shapes that are curved in different ways. I assume the captcha was talking about things that have a similar shape to a cone, but I don't think you'd get much of a clue from Google.