Courtesy of Blind Access Journal, Google has enabled a system where blind and vision-impaired users can bypass the dreaded CAPTCHA. Users can request access by email, and have access in 24 hours. According to the NFB, Google has also promised an audio playback alternative by the end of April, 2006.
If you haven’t done so already, please sign the Google petition to request all of their services to be accessible. This is a great first step by Google, and I hope that they are able to keep their timeline and provide a service that is both accessible and enables them to screen automated bots from their system as well. Audio CAPTCHA has issues as well, and is not without its problems, so I am intrigued to see if Google can bring the level of innovation to this problem as they have with information search.
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