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Real time support for blind users. (self.Blind)
submitted 8y ago by Ocrasorm
In response to feedback from users, many of whom frequent this subreddit, we have made some changes.

We realise that members of the blind community often run into our captcha and have no way of getting around it.

The community team can now help you out in real time. This means, if you write to our $1 or send an email to contact@reddit.com, we can ensure that you will no longer hit the same roadblocks.

We are aware this is a workaround and not a solution. There is still a lot of work ahead of us, as we try the make the site more accessible for for everyone.

Hopefully you will see this as a step in the right direction.

If there is anything else we can do to make things easier and more enjoyable for you all, just give us a shout.
jage9 5 points
Very cool, and glad to hear that someone is listening. I look forward to any future improvements.
fastfinge 5 points
Woohoo! Thanks for this! As a work-around, it's good enough for now, and puts you on the same footing as other major sites like Slashdot, Wikipedia, etc, all of whom do the same thing.

Perhaps it'd be useful if one of the mods here put this info in the community description, or somewhere visible like that? I'll go do that for /r/blindnews myself, before I forget.
mahurtadoz 2 points
yeah, lets make it visible!
EdibleFruit 2 points
heh, visible.
thatsnotgneiss 4 points
Thank you!
ZugNachPankow 2 points
>Hopefully you will see this as a step in the right direction.

I hope the pun was intentional.
swimmer91 1 points
Sorry I'm late to respond, I just discovered this subreddit. I think someone should create a Captcha that works for blind users. I have an idea and I was wondering if you could give me feedback:

You answer two questions as with most standard captcha. Each one gives you a sentence about a person and asks you to give an emotion the person is probably feeling. The idea is that humans can easily tell when another human would be sad/happy/frustrated about something, but computers have a hard time.

Here's an example:
Bob is on his first date with Mary. He is feeling: [nervous]
Bob last ate 8 hours ago. He is feeling: [hungry]

The system would have a method to account for similar emotions, so users wouldn't need to fret too much about which word to use. Does this seem like a reasonable solution? I'm really sorry if I've overlooked something. If something about this wouldn't work, does anybody have an idea for adjusting it to something that would?

Please also be aware that I'm still figuring out whether this is feasible from a computer science perspective. I'm not sure that computers cannot actually solve this problem reliably. Unfortunately the field this deals with is probably my weakest, but I'm trying to figure that part out.
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