- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 13:20:31 -0400
- To: jfontana@yubico.com, tonynad@microsoft.com, wseltzer@w3.org, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: W3C WAI Accessible Platform Architectures <public-apa@w3.org>, public-rqtf@w3.org, public-webauthn@w3.org, public-credentials@w3.org, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>, Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>
Dear W3C Colleagues: The Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group would like to meet jointly either with Web Authentications and/or with Decentralized Identifiers during TPAC in Fukuoka. We note Web Authentications is at an early stage in its 2.0 process and that our planned meeting dates overlap. Unfortunately, APA does NOT overlap with Decentralized Identifiers, but perhaps a few members of that group will still be available later in the week? We'd appreciate some of your time if you're still at TPAC. We have a very specific topic we'd like to explore. The topic arises from our recently concluded work updating a 2005 W3C Note: "Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA" now in its final stages of being published as an updated W3C Note (based on this completed Editor's Draft[1]). Topic: Killing Off Interactive CAPTCHA Comment: Can we use authentication strategies, including perhaps block chain technologies to confirm a user's humanity without actually identifying a specific human individual? There may be other brief agenda as well, but our concern withCAPTCHA does seem to us a real significant opportunity for success with a long standing accessibility problem. To put it differently we're suggesting the Turing Test application as a subject of W3C standardization. Is that a reasonable prospect? If so, we believe more than accessibility will benefit. We also wish Decentralized Identifiers to be aware of the accessibility requirements that come with U.S. Government funding--not that we know of any particular exposure or problem at this time. This is simply an FYI for our mutual benefit. Thanking you in advance for your consideration, Janina Sajka, Chair Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) http://www.w3.org/wai/apa/ [1] https://w3c.github.io/apa/captcha/ [2] 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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