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

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405 points blindgeek | 2 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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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. RobMurray ◴[18 Nov 24 15:59 UTC] No.42173626[source]▶
And audio Captchas are in English. I suppose blind people who don't speak English or have any kind of hearing difficulty don't deserve accessibility.
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2. webspinner ◴[19 Nov 24 01:42 UTC] No.42179332[source]▶
Can you have them translated into your native language? I mean I imagine if your using Google from a different country, it might take notice. Maybe it doesn't apply to reCAPTCHA, Google can be stupid like that!