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> reCAPTCHA challenges remain a considerable burden on the web, delaying and often blocking our access to services and information depending on our physical and cognitive abilities, our social and cultural background, and the devices or networks we connect from.

I'm a visually impaired user, and watching captchas get more and more hostile to people like me has been... difficult.

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I imagine it’s going to result in some ADA suits sooner or later, like when people went around suing business who didn’t have a ramp alternative to stairs.

There seems to be quite a business with small businesses being sued for violating the ADA. They can pay about $10,000 to make the lawsuit go away.

> visually impaired user

i would've thought the audio version of the captcha can still work for such a user?

I suppose because a bunch of the automated solvers use the audio as a workaround, the audio ones have become borderline (or even over the line) unlistenable.

The most recent few I've done have sounded like someone whispering "they threw their hair through the chair there" next to a propeller plane in a heavy thunderstorm.

I can barely understand them, but my automatic solver still can, without issues, luckily.

Those aren't always available, and as others point out, they've gotten very hostile too.

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