Re: Please read asap--reCAPTCHA rewritten

Hey, Josh:

My problem is the previous paragraph praises them. So, I need some kind
of connector that says "now we're damming them."

I agree that "on the other hand" could have more bite, but what would
signal the change better?

Joshue O Connor writes:
> One small editorial..
> 
> In Paragraph 5 of 3.1.1 - Version 2: Are you a robot? - the para starts with
> a lower case o - 'on the the other hand'.
> 
> I suggest that you drop this anyway and start the para with "It now appears
> that audio CAPTCHAs.. [...]" it has more bite that way IMO.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Josh
> 
> 
> On 17/05/2019 14:56, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Colleagues:
> > 
> > Per our conversations on Wednesday's RQTF teleconference, I've edited
> > our discussion of reCAPTCHA to use verbs that suggest mostly the past
> > perfect and present progressive, i.e. things may have changed when
> > people read our document a year or more from now. As we discussed, how
> > long V. 2 remains available, despite it's wide current adoption, is
> > completely up to Google. They can pull the switch on it anytime, as they
> > have on audio reCAPTCHA even since our first wide review.
> > 
> > https://w3c.github.io/apa/captcha/#the-google-recaptcha
> > 
> > Please read as soon as you can. I'm hoping to get this locked down today
> > so that I can also issue a Call for Consensus to APA as we also
> > discussed.
> > 
> > Note I'm also copying Angel who provided the following relevant comment:
> > 
> > Ángel writes:
> > > On 2019-05-14 at 15:13 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > >   ...
> > > The piece about reCAPTCHA V. 2 seems a bit inconsistent: it claims to be
> > > "recent" (without specifying a date), but it's already gone. I suspect
> > > it may be an old contribution that was left as-is. Could probably
> > > improve by changing all this paragraph to past tense.
> > > > One recent reCAPTCHA V. 2 innovation has seemed most promising. (...)
> > > > Unfortunately, as of this writing it appears that audio CAPTCHAs
> > > > previously available are now no longer being provided
> > > 
> > > > Google is intent that a traditional CAPTCHA not be the fallback
> > > mechanism.
> > > 
> > > It could be rephrased eg.
> > > "with the intent that the implemented fallback mechanism is not a
> > > traditional CAPTCHA."
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ...
> > Janina
> > 
> -- 
> Emerging Web Technology Specialist/A11y (WAI/W3C)

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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

Received on Friday, 17 May 2019 14:10:31 UTC