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From: deborah.kaplan
Date: Dec 1, 2015 2:14PM

I have found Google's new reCAPTCHA to be a 100% blocker for me these days. It is almost guaranteed to see Dragon NaturallySpeaking as a bot, which means it is almost guaranteed to give me the image verification screen, which means I am forced into the 100% non-keyboard accessible image verification process. I understand the problem with Dragon NaturallySpeaking being seen as a bot, but not putting keyboard accessibility onto the image verification screen is inexplicable.

It once again comes back to National Park bears and trash cans (a CAPTCHA that most humans can solve is also one a smart bot can solve), returning to the sentiment that the solution is not going to be a smarter CAPTCHA. Not least because a lot of them are getting crowd-source solved for pennies.


Deborah Kaplan




On Tue, 1 Dec 2015, Ann Pennington wrote:

> Google's reCAPTCHA has been updated in a way that is much more accessible than in the past, as discussed in a Google blog post:
> https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/12/are-you-robot-introducing-no-captcha.html
>
> And the Simply Accessible team tested the accessibility of the updated noCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA with positive results:
> http://simplyaccessible.com/article/googles-no-captcha/
>
> Best regards,
> Ann
>
>
>> On Dec 1, 2015, at 2:41 PM, Lucy Greco < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>
>> all of these other options you are talking about have been tried. the
>> problem is blind people are not the only people with disability on the
>> web. if its a math problem a person that has a math learning disability
>> will be blocked. and a word game like the logic problem will make it hard
>> if the person is not a English speaker or has a cognitive disability this
>> is a long time problem but a lot of people are working on it and maybe one
>> day we will find a good answer. lucy
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:43 AM, rjaquiss < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Ella:
>>>
>>> I have seen CAPTCHAs that use math questions or simple logic questions
>>> such as, "What is larger, a dog or a horse?"
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>
>>> >>> >>> >>> >>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
>> University of California, Berkeley
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