Re: [orca-list] ot: IRS uses captchas

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Please consider filing a Sec. 508 complaint with U.S. Treasury.

Janina

Kenny Hitt writes:
> Hi.  I decided today to file for the rebate here in the U.S.
> After going through several sites that required some version of Windows, I finally found one that worked 
> with Orca and Firefox.
>
> fileyourtaxes.com
> The site is complicated, but that's a result of the forms needed.  Everything wen fine until I tried to 
> submit my return.
> That's when I ran into an IRS requirement that I didn't think was legal.  The IRS requires you to ent the 
> contents of a captcha.
> Orca can't see it, and there is no audio file.  I did talk to the company.  The IRS requires the Captcha.  
> The people I talked to at fileyourtaxes.com didn't like it, but they have no choice.
> Are there any legal groups in the U.S. working on requireing sites to be accessible?  In my view, this 
> captcha breaks accessibility.
>
>           Kenny
>
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