Re: CAPTCHA note

Hi, Matthew:

With cc to RQTF ----


We consider CAPTCHA an active edit, even though we've made no edits
recently.

The editorial hangup has been about updating the current state of the art, i.e. Sec 3
and especially Secs 3.3-3.5. We haven't had a participant able to steer
us right on that. So, if Mozilla can help this could be an active edit
early in 2026. Thanks for the heads up.

To clarify the history, we should probably have version numbering. We
first published the note in the 00's. The Note was updated in 2019. I
expect "Latest Published" would point to the Note version.




Matthew Atkinson writes:
> Hi both,
> 
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> 
> Martin Thomson (TAG, Mozilla) picked up on the 'Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA'
> doc (https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/) and seems quite keen that the work
> be continued (he also has some questions about parts of it I think). It
> looks like we never published it as a WG Note (only a Draft Note) which is
> odd, as I thought we had published it as a full WG Note.
> 
>  
> 
> Can you confirm the status of it? I don't know if I can get any help from
> Martin in updating it, but if we didn't publish it as a Note, it would be
> nice to (with some updates perhaps). I think one thing that's happened since
> the doc is that Private Access Tokens were introduced, though there may be
> other things.
> 
>  
> 
> Best regards,
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Matthew
> 
>  
> 
> [1]
> <https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-captchas-on-iphones-and-macs-using-
> new-standard/>
> 

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Received on Tuesday, 16 December 2025 13:25:58 UTC