Elena Brescacin
@elettrona@poliversity.it
Blind since birth, accessibility expert, WordPress blogger and Fediverse ambassador, inclusive designer, HIV awareness advocate. #accessibility #blind #WordPress #accessibility #hiv #fediverse #advocacy #activitypub #StopStigma #UEqualsU
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"We're verifying that you are a human".
How degrading is this sentence? It's CloudFlare's warning and it often happens you must complete a challenge. In this case a flag to check, in other cases it even gets worse - a captcha based on senses. Hearing and vision. And if you're impaired, you're simply screwed.
It's more and more frequent due to the very high percentage of bots navigating the web, automated systems percentage has overcome humans and it's an evident statistic. We can't deny this.
But I must share this fear: humans just click on the flag or overcome the challenge without even being aware of what the real meaning of "tell me you are a human" is.
It can even cause internalized ableism. Humans with disabilities normalizing the fact to have mandatory certification of being humans.
#a11y #ableism #accessibility #ai #blind #disability #human #inclusion #StayHuman #web
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