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Re: Google's Invisible reCAPTCHA

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From: Jeremy Echols
Date: Apr 4, 2017 9:33AM

I concur. I avoid the mouse whenever possible (wrist pain), and substandard-but-not-atrocious vision, and I find most captchas very annoying. I have yet to figure out how to do the "pick the images that show a street sign" type with just the keyboard. Many captchas are hard for me to read and my vision isn't even all that bad. I've tried the audio captchas and found them even tougher.

If a site has a difficult captcha and the content isn't something I consider a "must have", I tend to just give up and look for something similar elsewhere.

A long time ago I implemented a very naive captcha that consisted of questions like "Type in the third letter of the word 'chicken'". It was effective at stopping most of our spam problems because it was a one-off captcha that bots didn't bother to handle. ...but I don't know how well that sort of problem works for people with cognitive issues.
From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > on behalf of Bossley, Peter A. < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Monday, April 3, 2017 6:28 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List; Jim Allan
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Google's Invisible reCAPTCHA

I have to say, from an accessibility standpoint, I much prefer text captchas that ask questions in text format in order to verify a human. Yes, this requires a sufficiently large sample of questions to prevent automated question answering, and no, it isn't perfect, but it is the only solution I've seen that works for those with both blindness and deafness.