markwyner,
@markwyner@mas.to avatar

We really need to do away with this type of authentication.

The tests are often ambiguous. More importantly, they don’t meet accessibility requirements noted in WCAG 2.2. Specifically section 3.3.8 on “cognitive function tests”:

https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/accessible-authentication-minimum.html

Take this example here. Does “direction of” mean mirror the hand or point toward the hand?

Even neurotypical people could be confused by this.

linuslagerhjelm,

@markwyner I encountered a captcha looking like this a while ago. Which is actually the most terrible one so far imo. I had genuine problems solving it.

markwyner,
@markwyner@mas.to avatar

@linuslagerhjelm even if you can solve it, you’re just trying to log into an account. 🤷🏻‍♂️

octothorpe,
@octothorpe@mastodon.online avatar

@markwyner yeah, I almost always get tripped up by these, mostly because the instructions are ambiguous, and the models are terrible.

markwyner,
@markwyner@mas.to avatar

@octothorpe that’s the thing. They’re horribly unusable to begin with. But if you add the poor copywriting/illustrations, the issue is exacerbated.

flying_saucers,
@flying_saucers@mastodon.social avatar

@markwyner I am supposedly neuro- and physiotypical and it just took me a good long while to figure out where the front of that animal was supposed to be lol

markwyner,
@markwyner@mas.to avatar

@flying_saucers right? I’ve conducted a couple of usability test on these and they fail miserably every time.

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