Also known as: why you shouldn't trust a company who makes their product intensionally inaccessible with allowing you an accessibility workaround Update: I've been informed that hCaptcha now has a text captcha option. The bulk of this blog post still stands. Thanks to D Hamlin for the ...
How would they even deem to determine that one is not blind over the internet?
It seems they decided that based on the author saying that they “looked at the browser console” so either based on using the word “looked” or they deemed using the browser console to be sketchy and enough to disqualify the author, either way pretty shitty.
I’m pretty sure blind people still use the word “looked” in that context when communicating online.
I didn’t think I implied otherwise, I did say it was shitty of them because it makes no sense to assume someone isn’t blind just because of their word choice. I’m just guessing at what their reasoning is.
@Anticorp @BakedCatboy Hey I wonder what happens if I mention this thing? Nothing good, probably. The fediverse is weird.