mccHoly fuck I just got literally Plato's Cave'd by ReCaptcha
dominic → @@mcc .. did it require you to select that or
jonathankoren™@barometz @mcc probably. I’ve been forced to call mailboxes streetlights before.
It’s ironic. Originally, this was supposed to be some data collection for recognizing objects for computer vision. Literally a task computers at the time weren’t good at. Now, humans are forced to confirm the computers’ bad decisions. Really feels like they lost the thread and now have confused the map for the territory.i
nachtet@jonathankoren @barometz @mcc how do blind people recaptcha? Let the alt text play and chose between "stairs", "no stairs" and "awaiting verdict"?
@nachtet @jonathankoren @barometz They click the headphone button in the bottom left (tooltip text "Get an audio challenge").
How does the headphone button appear to a screen reader? No idea.
BewilderedKat 
@nachtet @jonathankoren @barometz @mcc Nowadays there are audio captchas that sometimes actually work.
I used to volunteer with a service that would connect you to someone with vision impairments to assist with something (I think it was BeMyEyes but I can't remember) and CAPTCHAs were one of the most frequent requests. There have been some improvements since then, but not as many as there should have been (imo)
Rain@h3mmy @nachtet @jonathankoren @barometz @mcc despite being able to see, audio captchas are often the only way I'm able to pass them.
@h3mmy @jonathankoren @barometz @mcc
That's sounds like a really useful service, great that you volunteered! Also great, that a lot it isn't necessary anymore.
How did that work technically? Would you get access to their device, like remote IT support?
@nachtet It was more like a screen sharing thing. A lot of the time the preference was to switch over to Skype since that was widely used back then. Teamspeak was another common option in certain circles.
There were a few instances where something wasn't even keyboard accessible, and there would be a routine of "ok, a little to the left, too far, a smidge upwards, okay now click!". Often the track pad would need to be enabled since it was common to just have that disabled as a default.
There was also a video call thing so you could help with reading a label or figure out something color coded.