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I would be very, very curious to see hard numbers on this.

Also, it's trivial enough to add a <noscript> tag advising users to turn on Javascript (with a friendly "here's how" link), or you can do the work to degrade gracefully. Your conversion might drop for such users, but there's no reason it should go to zero.

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Or you could add the Captcha in this case.

In which case, are most captchas going to screw blind people anyway?

reCaptcha has highly-accessible captchas, including audio versions.

Have you ever tried entering an audio captcha?

Can't say I have. Is it not as one might imagine?

It's difficult to describe. Go sign up for a new Google account [1] and click the wheelchair symbol to activate the audio captcha.

[1]: https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount

On the off chance someone reads this, I'll try to describe it: over the top of random, unintelligible babbling, a voice reads alphanumeric characters. Parts of it are about as difficult to understand as some captchas are to read recently.

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