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This does not really make sense, it would be perfectly fine if two products existed, a cheap inaccessible captcha and a more expensive perfectly accessible one with companies offering both of them to users.


Fine in what sense? In my opinion, it is not fine to block disabled users out of webpages just because it costs a bit more to let them in.


That is not happening in what I described. A webpage could decide to offer the cheapest working captcha as a default with a "Are you using assistive technologies?" / "Do you need help?" link to a more accessible service.

I don't think that is will be common in the wild, but it is an argument against regulating captcha providers rather than websites.


Oh, I see what you mean. There may be a market for "accessible CAPTCHA", that's audio-only.


Have you tried our accessibility option? It's perfectly accessible https://www.hcaptcha.com/accessibility




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