- From: Ben Maurer <bmaurer@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:40:07 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>
- cc: wai-xtech@w3.org, Chris Blouch <cblouch@aol.com>, Colin McMillen <mcmillen@cs.cmu.edu>
Hey, On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote: > ben wrote, quote: >> We don't do anything to ask for quicktime. We simply insert and >> <DEFANGED_embed> element into the document. Could you take a >> look at: >> >> https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount >> >> And click the audio button under Word Verification. Is this any better? >> >> Does anybody have suggestions as to the best thing to do from >> the html side? > unquote > > aloha, ben! > > one of the things about the google new account form, is that the > edit box informs one that one must either enter the numbers they > see or the ones they hear, WITHOUT making mention that the > mechanism for doing so lies outside of the edit box; again the > containing TABLE would greatly benefit from the addition of a > descriptive summary, which instructs the user that the audio > captcha will ONLY play if one activates the image associated > with the audio CAPTCHA. So we sort of do this too -- we make the controls for reCAPTCHA come *after* the text box itself. I think we should see if we can fix this. > as for the HTML side of things, i still think you could achieve the same > functionality by using the BUTTON form control defined in HTML 4.01 for > the tier of alternatives and assistance -- if they were actual, rather > than pseudo, form buttons, then they would not only be included in the > tab-navigation, but would also appear in lists of form controls -- i > discussed the details of the use BUTTON in my first note about reCAPTCHA > accessibility, archived at: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2007May/0048.html > > hope this is of assistance -- would you like me to mock up a dummy > form, integrating everything discussed so far? would that be of > assistance, at least from a comparative point of view -- markup > a reCAPTCHA form to ascertain what works and what doesn't with > which user agents and what assistive technology... I think that'd help a lot. Obviously, we're going to need to get the mockup back to a point where it has the same visual appearence as today, but I think it might help us to have an accessible starting point. We'd really appreciate any time you can spend coming up with this. -b
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