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So why does #hCAPTCHA still insist on forcing blind people to retrieve their so-called “accessibility cookies”. Not only does that compel us to go through many more additional steps than a sighted person would have to do to verify their humanity (irony!) but I gather this dreadful workaround is not really even secure! Have they not heard of a simple thing called “audio challenges”…? Is this really “accessibility”…? (#Discord, #DoBetter!)
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in reply to Misty-don 👩🏼‍🦯

I believe that HCaptcha has an option for audio challenges but it doesn't seem to be available or enabled on every site that uses it. Even with that, audio challenges still lock out deaf-blind people.
Sometimes, when I try to sign into PayPal using Brave, I get an HCaptcha challenge with no audio challenge. It's very tricky getting those "accessibility cookies" to play nicely with Brave and it's a step I shouldn't need to go through, anyway. What usually happens is that I give up and my second authentication attempt, for whatever reason, results in bypassing HCaptcha. Blindness organizations like the NFB or @ACBNational need to engage in advocacy with HCaptcha with the goal of getting them to be more inclusive and less discriminatory. If that fails, there needs to be a law suit filed against them.