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Audio captchas don't really solve the underlying problem. Yes, they make things easier for english-speaking blind people with no hearing problems, but that's about it.

From an accessibility perspective, the only solution that makes sense is pervasive surveillance to determine if you're human or not.

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A lock needs not be unbreakable. It only needs to be more expensive to break than the value of the things it protects.

So captchas should only be hard enough to make complicated setups involving ML models or pipelines to Mechanical Turk not worth it. Pervasive surveillance is an overkill for this particular purpose.

I'm not really talking about this from an a11y standpoint, but audio CAPTCHA's are so much easier than "choose the fire hydrant" hell.

I actually remember reading a post saying that an accessible CAPTCHA is hard. To make it accessible, you have to make it machine-readable, which defeats the point...

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