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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: 0.413s | 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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sundarurfriend ◴[18 Nov 24 21:29 UTC] No.42177270[source]▶
Avoiding this is what made hCaptcha popular among a lot of users in the first place. reCaptcha has always been guilty of this, and it doesn't seem like they're taking any steps to improve this US-centred definition of humanity. hCaptcha gave much more general and neutral puzzles that made a lot of people (including me) give a sigh of relief when they encountered a CAPTCHA and it was h and not re.
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1. RobMurray ◴[18 Nov 24 22:04 UTC] No.42177615[source]▶
recaptcha audio challenge is just a few words (in English) that you have to enter. Might be easier in some circumstances? You can press CTRL to repeat the audio.
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2. webspinner ◴[19 Nov 24 01:52 UTC] No.42179384[source]▶
I like it myself. If I have to use CAPTCHA that is, I can't stand it on principle!