- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:57:20 +0000
- To: public-html-a11y@w3.org
aloha!
just a reminder, there is no such thing as a universally accessible
CAPTCHA -- even if an audio alternate is offered to the visual
challange, how does that help someone who is deaf-blind or who has
enough hearing loss to make the "masked" sounds unintelligble and
enough vision loss to prevent the user from reading the distorted
CAPTCHA text?
simply making an audio version of a visual CAPTCHA does NOT make
the CAPTCHA "challange" accessible, so i would ask/propose that
HTML5 NOT include any verbiage on CAPTCHAs, full stop
gregory.
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Accessibility, Internationalization, and Interoperability are not
"features", "overlays" or "add-ons". Rather, they are core
components of any architecture -- programmatic or otherwise.
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Gregory J. Rosmaita, gregory@linux-foundation.org
Vice-Chair, WebMaster & Listmaster, Open Accessibility Workgroup
http://a11y.org/ http://a11y/specs
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