William,
I immediately had the same question when I heard about the new reCAPTCHA from Google. I haven't done my own independent testing yet, but, this article http://simplyaccessible.com/article/googles-no-captcha/ ... seems to indicate that there is significantly improved accessibility... mostly because of the way Google is determining whether a user is human or not, through some typical complex Google algorithm. Of course, if the algorithm fails, it defaults to the old way, so there would still be accessibility limitations.
Antonio O. HaileSelassie
Agency Section 508 Technical Accessibility Specialist
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From: Williams, William R -FS [mailto:wrwilliams@fs.fed.us]
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 2:20 PM
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Accessibility of Google's new reCAPTCHA
While this is a somewhat new approach to the CAPTCHA dilemna, I am wondering if anyone has enough experience with thi "solution" to determine whether or not accessibility issues, especially for users of AT, continue to be present? Apparently, Wordpress and other sites have started using it. Here's some relevant URLs:
https://wordpress.org/support/register.php
http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/12/are-you-robot-introducing-no-captcha.html
https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html
Thanks for any help that you can provide ... it's appreciated!
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