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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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bityard ◴[18 Nov 24 15:31 UTC] No.42173273[source]▶
I have lived in the West my whole life, and am reasonably well educated, and have never heard the word conoids in my life.
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mock-possum ◴[18 Nov 24 19:49 UTC] No.42176176[source]▶
Sure, but you can imagine pretty easily what a ‘conoid’ would be, right? ‘Sphereoid’ would be something sphere-like, ‘mongoloid’ is something mongol-like, ‘freakazoid’ is something freaky…

it’s pretty clear from context that ‘conoid’ means ‘like a cone’ isn’t it?

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1. TylerE ◴[18 Nov 24 21:39 UTC] No.42177382[source]▶
But is it a geometrical cone, a conifer tree like thing, a psuedo-control device, or what.

I consider my self pretty literate (I was assessed as reading at a college level by the 4th grade), and I've never heard that word.

More importantly, they can look absolutely nothing like cones.

Would you identify this as "cone like" if it wasn't for the URL? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conoid#/media/File:Pluecker-co...