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

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

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)

I distinctly remember a captcha which asked me to identify fire hydrants. Some of the pictures were hydrants, while others were standpipes. These are different things, and I answered accordingly.

The service refused to acknowledge my humanity until I relented that a standpipe was a hydrant. If at some future date any of us burn to death due to an automated fire truck that misbehaved due to this, we’ll know why.

Yup - I recognize this problem. I am a motorcyclist and I frequently have to grit my teeth and misidentify scooters as motorcycles if I want to get past captcha.

For non-bikers, a scooter has an automated gearbox and small wheels etc. Think vespa.

In the UK at least they are generally a different category of license, although that's because of the size of a standard scooter engine.