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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Dec 4, 2014 8:14AM

On 04/12/2014 14:20, Léonie Watson wrote:
> Alastair Campbell wrote:
> "At first glance, it is keyboard accessible, has appropriate ARIA attributes
> (which are needed as they use a span for a checkbox), and it didn't fail
> when I only used the keyboard."
>
> Quick back/packet test with NVDA and Jaws in Firefox suggests it works well.
> They've used a tri-state checkbox, which shifts to partially checked whilst
> the verification is taking place, then completely checked when verified.
>
> Interestingly by the time I tried it in IE, I must have triggered one of the
> heuristics because it prompted me for the old-style CAPTCHA. Presumably the
> result of hitting it a few times in quick succession.

Strangely, I've had quite a few issues when I tried it...now maybe it's
due to my inexperience with some of the finer points of NVDA and JAWS,
but - testing on a similar page http://patrickhlauke.github.io/recaptcha
with IE and Firefox - I got all sorts of weirdness - not being able to
actually navigate into the iframe, always being flagged for traditional
CAPTCHA reverification in IE/JAWS, having the "refresh", "audio captcha"
etc buttons not actually being activatable in, I seem to remember,
IE/NVDA. In short, seems a bit hit and miss at the moment...

P
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