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Re: recaptcha. I thought it was accessible and thats why I used it.

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jul 14, 2014 4:31AM

Also, don't forget that the audio for captcha is generally usually so
bad that it is impossible to work with.
Make sure your client is willing to sit down and do 5 tries regetting
in using only the audio.
If he/she gets in 4 times it might b possible for them to accept it as
a solution.
If not, they might understand what an unreasonable hurdle this is.

(I know i am preaching to the choir on this one, I wish there was a
better CAPTCHA technology out there, I think sending authentication
cdes via text or email should be a reasonable alternative, in Iceland
this is doable because people can sign up their phone and email
addresses via a central national registration directory. The problem
has not quite disappeared but it is close to disappearing).
Cheers
-B

On 7/14/14, Birkir R. Gunnarsson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> It depends.
> If the button is implemnted as an anchor tag it is probably mising the
> href attribute (also, fo role="button" and ideally support fr space
> bar key in addition to enter, though that is straying into best
> practice territory).
> .
> If it is a span it is probably missing tabindex="0" (plus
> role="button" and support or both enter and spacebar key presses or
> key codes 13 and 32 respectively).
> Not sure if you can do a front end Javascript hack to put these
> elements in place.
>
>
> On 7/10/14, Nancy Johnson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> Whoops. I didn't know and had been frustrating me for a long time.
>> The back-end web-developer added arbitrary focus elements. Still need
>> to know about accessing the refresh button without a mouse...
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Nancy Johnson < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> wrote:
>>> I am using the 'clean' theme..
>>> I noticed:
>>> 1. on page load, the focus goes to the captcha input instead of the
>>> top of the page. Is there a work around?
>>> 2. there is no visual focus ( I was able to override the style to put
>>> one back in)
>>> 3. I could not access the reset image, nor did NVDA announce the
>>> audio, without a mouse.
>>> Is there a keyboard command for this?
>>>
>>> Client wanted captcha even with all the issues around it.
>>>
>>> Nancy
>> >> >> >>
>
>
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