For Review: Updated Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA Published

Colleagues:

FYI, our CAPTCHA FPWD is published. Thanks to Michael, Josh,  and all who helped
pull this together!

Best,

Janina

Michael Cooper writes:
> Dear WAI Interest Group,
> 
> W3C WAI invites you to comment on the updated Working Draft of:
>      Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA
> https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/
> 
> Overview:
> The document examines a number of approaches that allow systems to test for
> human users, and the extent to which these approaches adequately accommodate
> people with disabilities. The document looks at cryptographic authentication
> to verify the user is human, via W3C technologies that remove the need for
> interactive CAPTCHAs.
> 
> Updates:
> This document was previously published as a W3C Working Group Note. With the
> recent updates, it is now a 'First Public Working Draft'
> 
> In-progress updates to the document are available in the Editors' Draft at:
> https://w3c.github.io/apa/captcha-accessibility/
> 
> For review:
> We particularly would like your comments on:
> 
>  * The use of W3C technologies to remove the need for interactive CAPTCHAs
>  * The use of Turing Tokens
>  * Information about recent alternatives to the use of CAPTCHA challenges.
>  * Comments concerning the discussion in the document of barriers that
>    CAPTCHA creates for people with disabilities.
> 
> Comments:
> To comment, please open a new issue in the APA GitHub repository:
> https://github.com/w3c/apa/issues/new
> Please create separate GitHub issues for each topic, rather than commenting
> on multiple topics in a single issue. If it’s not feasible for you to use
> GitHub, send comments in e-mail to:
> public-apa@w3.org
> 
> Please send comments by *1 February 2022*.
> 
> Share:
> We encourage you to share this information and include @w3c_wai, @w3c,
> #accessibility, #a11y
> Here's a tweet you can use:
> https://twitter.com/w3c_wai/status/1471515541835759620
> 
> Regards,
> Janina Sajka and Becky Gibson, Accessible Platform Architectures WG
> Co-Chairs
> Michael Cooper, Accessible Platform Architectures WG W3C Staff Contact

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Janina Sajka
(she/her/hers)
https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa

Received on Thursday, 16 December 2021 16:51:16 UTC