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February 20, 2006

Google Shutting Out Blind Users

Google's use of "captchas" (visual-based security filters) means that blind users are unable to utilize some of Google's services. An online petition has been created to ask Google to make their site more accessible:

"Google's implementation of word verification currently denies us access to such important features as the ability to create accounts and blogs, change our passwords, and post comments to most blogs that use the Blogger service," the petition says.

It'd be going a bit far to say that Google doesn't care about blind people, but this has been an issue for some time. Given Google's brainpower, if one person at PRWeb International could handcode an audio alternative in a few days, Google ought to be able to throw a few people at it.

Found via ThreadWatch.

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