Re: Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA draft update

Colleagues:

Forwarding from Roy's post on WAI-IG ...

Roy Ran writes:
> The Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group has published a Working
> Draft of a revision to Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA at:
> 
> https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/
> 
> Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA has been a Working Group Note since 2005. It
> describes problems with common approaches to distinguish human users of web
> sites from robots, and examines a number of potential solutions. Since the
> last publication, the abilities of robots to defeat CAPTCHAs has increased,
> and new technologies to authenticate human users have come available. This
> update brings the document up to date with these new realities. It is
> published as Working Draft to gather public review, after which it is
> expected to be republished as a Working Group Note.
> 
> More information about this publication is in the blog post:
> https://www.w3.org/blog/2018/07/captcha-update/
> 
> Regards,
> Janina Sajka, Accessible Platform Architectures WG Chair,
> Michael Cooper, Accessibility Guidelines WG W3C Staff Contact
> 

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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