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Re: Facebook CAPTCHA verification, when is account verification required (for social media accessibility study)

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From: Michael.Moore
Date: Apr 28, 2011 9:33AM

I think that re-entering CAPTCHA is a new security measure that is being deployed by large social network sites. I ran into the same thing yesterday on LinkedIn. I think that it may have been the first time that I attempted to log in from a new work laptop that I got about a week ago. I believe that this is a recent change since I have acquired new systems at home over the past year and did not experience the issue on those.

LinkedIn uses reCAPTCHA so there is an audio alternative but expanded use of CAPTCHA is definitely not good news from an assistive technology user perspective.

Michael Moore