- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 08:41:57 -0400
- To: W3C WAI Accessible Platform Architectures <public-apa@w3.org>, public-rqtf@w3.org
Colleagues: A brief followup to our APA conversation about Decentralized Identifiers and their potential to replace CAPTCHA. The current spec draft is here: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/ The following statement drew my attention: "Portions of the work on this specification have been funded by the United States Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate under contracts HSHQDC-16-R00012-H-SB2016-1-002 and HSHQDC-17-C-00019." While I am no attorney I do understand the U.S. funding would bring this technology development under the provisions of Sec. 508[1], i.e. the technology developed needs to be accessible and support accessibility. We'll try to learn more about the potential this may (or may not) have to help kill interactive CAPTCHA during TPAC. Best, Janina [1] http://www.section508.gov -- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
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