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From: Jon Gibbins (dotjay)
Date: Apr 17, 2008 10:00AM

Christophe Strobbe wrote:
> Last year, there was a long discussion thread on reCAPTCHA's
> accessibility issues on the WAI XTech mailing list (last message:
> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2007Aug/0106.html>;)
> but I had the impression that it petered out without coming to a real
> conclusion. There were keyboard accessibility issues; the example at
> <http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html>; still uses document.write to
> insert an iframe element that contains the CAPTCHA. (This script
> appears just above another iframe element with the same CAPTCHA.)
> I haven't seen any mails, blog posts or articles stating that the
> issues have been solved and I have't retested it myself.
> reCAPTCHA also has a WordPress plug-in:
> <http://recaptcha.net/plugins/wordpress/>;.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christophe

Thanks, Christophe. I'd not seen that discussion.

Judging from my reading of Blind Access Journal, I was under the
impression that reCAPTCHA was doing a pretty good job.

http://blog.blindaccessjournal.com/2007/09/visual-verification-twitter-audio.html
http://blog.blindaccessjournal.com/search/label/ReCAPTCHA

Perhaps it warrants some new testing.

Jon



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