Google descriminates against blind/ sight impaired bloggers with CAPTCHA introduction

In an apparent attempt to respond to criticism that it is doing little to tackle spam blogs, Google has announced the use of captcha’s for posts that “appear to be spammy”, discriminating against blind and sight impaired users who utilises text recognition services to read content on a screen.

From initial accounts the captchas have only had a minimum impact on the amount of spam blogs being created on the service.

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