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

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408 points blindgeek | 2 comments | 18 Nov 24 10:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.471s | 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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ta1243 ◴[18 Nov 24 14:57 UTC] No.42172860[source]▶
Sorry I live in the west, what's a "crosswalk"

Did you mean to say

> not everyone lives in the USA

Other things I don't have a clue about - a fire hydrant, yellow taxis, yellow buses

(Obviously I do, because of American cultural imperialism through things like Captchas which mean the world has to understand American cultural touchstones)

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1. Symbiote ◴[18 Nov 24 15:34 UTC] No.42173308[source]▶
Maybe the standard international signs are more easily recognised by machines anyway, but if not it will be interesting when Google and others start needing Captcha help.

Americans will need to learn what speed limit, parking prohibition and pedestrian crossing signs look like in the rest of the world, as well as realizing buses and taxis come in more colours.

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2. reaperducer ◴[18 Nov 24 21:34 UTC] No.42177325[source]▶
Americans will need to learn what speed limit, parking prohibition and pedestrian crossing signs look like in the rest of the world

If you think this is a binary America/Rest of the World problem, then you haven't visited very much of the "rest of the world" and noticed that every place is full of variations.