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I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind | The Blog of Michael Taboada (michaels.world)

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This article from last year highlights how hCaptcha intentionally makes their product inaccessible and only provides a special cookie to bypass their test for people who are blind. hCaptcha customer service made some faulty assumptions and temporarily banned a blind individual from accessing their bypass cookie. Software and web applications should embrace universal design that includes all users rather than providing accommodations for people with specific disabilities. #accessibility

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'm really not sure how you do a universal design version of a captcha that a bot can't beat

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I hate hCaptcha, I use a VPN and it pretty much always fails no matter what because of it. Captcha in general sucks, for a long time I was unable to complete them because it turned out I needed glasses. I remember one captcha letting me use audio during this time but I needed to do multiple audio captcha which really slowed me down. Github was the worst for me, so many captcha needed to make an account. Once I got my glasses it became easier, but hCaptcha stills gives me a lot of grief due to VPN. Google's captcha isn't as bad as hCaptcha but I'm still unable to complete it once and be done, it always says I did something wrong the first time.