New Working Draft: Inacessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests: Problems and Alternatives

Dear WAI Interest Group Participants:

On 5 November 2003 the W3C/WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) 
published a Working Draft of a paper addressing accessibility problems with 
visual Turing tests, also known as CAPTCHAs.

These tests, which involve visual verification of a bitmapped image, are 
increasingly being used to limit access to services made available over the 
Web. They present a major problem to users who are blind, have low vision, 
or have a learning disability such as dyslexia. This Working Draft examines 
a number of potential solutions that allow systems to test for human users 
while preserving access by users with disabilities.

Inacessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests: Problems and Alternatives
         http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/

Comments are welcome at the publicly archived mailing list wai-xtech@w3.org.

Regards,

Matt May, Team Contact for Protocols and Formats Working Group
Judy Brewer, WAI Domain Leader


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Judy Brewer    +1.617.258.9741    http://www.w3.org/WAI
Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
MIT/LCS Room NE43-355, 200 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA,  02139,  USA

Received on Thursday, 6 November 2003 13:42:57 UTC