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

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405 points blindgeek | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 10:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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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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1. 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.