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From: Birkir Rúnar Gunnarsson
Date: Feb 1, 2011 9:09PM

Dear all.

I am hoping for a bit of a shortcut by posting this, rather than
leafing through the WCAG 2.0 standard, because I guess some of you may
have dealt with this situation before.
An Icelandic government web site has put captia on every single load
of the web site (the web site is that of the superior court and they
claim they are protecting the privacy of the individuals in the court
cases from internet searches).
Their captia is completely inaccessible, and nothing on the site can
be activated without having to fill in the captia first.
The government has committed itself (not legally, but in its official
information society policy document) to W3C A compliance .. which I
take to mean WCAG 2.0 Level I compliance, it is never explained
further.
Which part of the WCAG standard does inaccessible captia break?
Does anyone have experience in writing about this before (a letter of
complaint or legal statement of any kind)?
Anything of that nature you can share would be very helpful.
Thank you very much and have a great day y'all.
-B