rangerBlog - December 12th, 2007

05:49 am

Reading about CAPTCHA's this morning I ran smack into an unsettling question-- what do blind users do about them?

The answer is audio CAPTCHA's (implemented some places,) but I was shaken to realize I'd never even thought about this. I mean, suppsoedly I'm the good web developer- the one who doesn't sue ALT tags for mosueovers, actually defines screenreader nav-skip links, etc... but thw question enver even occoured ot me.

That's a little depressing. And irritating-- the things are everywhere! And the text-heavy internet is supposed to be one of the great equalizers for the blind. Suddenly this issue, which I had not encountered an hour ago, gets my goat.

Grr! *shakes fist* Accessibility!

...I have nothing deeper to say on thsi subject, sorry to disappoint you.