Hola la todos.
I'm being curios how the blind or just people with quite poor eyesight
are supposed to join Wiki(m|p)edia.
Fortunately though my own eyesight isn't what you call perfect, low
myopia gives me no obstacles to use computer without spectacles. But
unfortunately not every human being can boast not having such problems.
And I'm sure some of them could be potential wikimedians.
But when I e.g. want to proceed with registration I've got to fill a
field with what CAPTCHA says (and except for registration there are also
other cases when it's shown for nonautoconfirmed guys). But assume you
don't see it well — how on Earth are you to pass it then? It's not
uncommon to see audio version on many sites. But we have it not.
On Wikidata there is a link to
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Captcha which actually
acknowledges the problem, there is similar page on Meta, I believe there
are some more like this but the solution to contact siteadmins doesn't
seem too good for me - user at least needs to reveal his email publicly
or contact a sysop using some external to wikipages way. Not all
people'd like to do it. Enwiki provides with a link to a tool
https://accounts.wmflabs.org/ but still you need to give your email to
somebody.
But on the other hand even such a solution is better than nothing. But
it's local ones in perhaps dozen or two wikis while there are over 700
of them.
So what's the current status of dealing with the problem? Is someone
working on audio CAPTCHAs? Or perhaps there are some ideas how to make
other passages for such cases?
Spambots do exist anyway but it's sad if some potential users are being
stopped from joining us this way.
Yours,
Base