Yahoo Captchas are unfair to the many Yahoo users who can't see well. What can we do about this?

Yahoo recently added a Captcha (security image test) to its games (several other areas of Yahoo already use Captcha).





Captcha is unfair to older people who can't see well, those with dyslexia, blind people, and many others, all of whom use games and other areas of Yahoo but cannot see distorted images. It is also a bother to everyone else.





Yahoo provides no acceptable alternative to its Captchas for those who cannot use them.





Yahoo should do some easy research and discover that it is possible to have text-only Captchas that are adequate for the job. Yahoo should immediately remove all current unfair Captchas.





An ironic twist: the Games Captcha doesn't even work! Malicious and commercial users simply log into Yahoo via a different route, then connect to the Games server.





David Spector


Springtime Software

Yahoo Captchas are unfair to the many Yahoo users who can't see well. What can we do about this?
I agree. I don't see why plain text security checks wouldn't be just as effective.

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