CAPTIAs and visual impairment

Pawnless Endgame · 14 Apr 2018 at 19:06

Ignore the big fonts and dark theme. Does anyone else find CAPTIAs discriminatory? I'm blind in my right eye and my left eye takes a -27 lens. Most prescriptions for contacts are in the -1 to -7 range and -5 is considered bad.

Anyway, Google's playing up. I'm not a robot, so I tick that box.

Which are these are street signs? Surely I answered correct with the 4 boxes I ticked but it's coming back as not correct.

Then it repeats the street signs question 2 more times with different images, again coming back as incorrect.

Finally, it asked which of these are roads? But I can't see a road in any of these!

I'm not looking for answers for the questions because they time out after a minute or so. Just wondered if anyone share these woes. Other sites will do this occasionally as well as Google. I did think that a VPN may have caused this but it's turned off at the moment. Might just be a temporary glitch with VM.

antijoke · 14 Apr 2018 at 19:48

I don’t have a visual impairment but this happens to me as well, click all squares with a car, I click them and still get a second one.

Smh

It’s called captcha by the way

Minusorange · 14 Apr 2018 at 20:28

It's not your eyesight, the captchas are just hellishly trollish at times

malachi · 14 Apr 2018 at 20:32

And remember, You Are Not A Robot!

Bassmansam · 14 Apr 2018 at 20:38

-5 is bad, i thought it was just moderate? @Pawnless Endgame

Hades · 14 Apr 2018 at 20:40

These captchas get me too. They drive me nuts and I have reasonable eyesight.

Kreeeee · 14 Apr 2018 at 20:49

Gaverick · 14 Apr 2018 at 21:17

Always takes me about 10 goes to get past those and I've got perfect vision!

Maccy · 14 Apr 2018 at 22:03

malachi said:
And remember, You Are Not A Robot!

Or a shop. Or are you?

Pho · 14 Apr 2018 at 22:20

Are you using a VPN by chance? If you ever try and beat a captcha whilst using something like Tor you usually have to answer the question several times.

Do you have a Google account and are you signed in? If I'm signed into my Google account I'm "trusted" and only ever have to check the checkbox which makes it far easier.

I guess your black text has hidden it, but at the bottom left the second button is an audio challenge instead of a clicking challenge, it may be easier:

Pawnless Endgame · 15 Apr 2018 at 03:48

I do have a VPN, but it was turned off when I tried it earlier. It's an intermittent problem that happens once in a while. I certainly don't use TOR. Whichever way, it seems I'm not alone!

Minusorange · 15 Apr 2018 at 04:39

Pawnless Endgame said:
Whichever way, it seems I'm not alone!

World's hardest game

also an interesting vid on the history of these evil creations

iamdjdz · 15 Apr 2018 at 09:13

Generally with a not a robot box you can move the mouse around over the box a few times before you click it and the verification doesn't appear. On a phone just touch the screen near it a couple of times.

Angilion · 16 Apr 2018 at 04:40

Minusorange said:
also an interesting vid on the history of these evil creations

That explains why I always get the image recognition captchas - Google can't track me reliably enough to know I'm the same person who did it last time. Which is a good thing (and quite surprising).

Hotwired · 16 Apr 2018 at 05:04

Could also be the possibility of a false negative on purpose for an extra hurdle. So you might get it right but there's more than one to pass.