solving audio catpchas is not working in beta

Isn't it annoying? This is the kind of discriminatory lack of access DeafBlind people face every day.

Does the audio play at all, or is it more of an issue of getting into the text field? I am just curious.

Honestly, with the recent advances in AI capabilities, I have serious doubts as to the real world effectiveness and longevity of the captcha as we know it, as I'd imagine if not now, in the very near future, they will be rendered effectively useless. The processes that present-day captchas employ, such as identifying objects in an image or interpreting what is being spoken and converting it to text are well within the capabilities of current AI models, and they're expected to only get more powerful and capable with time and continued development.

In 2022, Apple introduced Private Access Tokens as a standard, which aims to eliminate or significantly reduce the number of captchas users encounter by associating a token with their Apple ID that can be used to affirm their humanness without identifying them personally. Similar to biometric login with Face ID or Touch ID, this process works by relying on the local device to affirm the user's humanness rather than sharing the token or Apple ID information with apps and websites. As this technology is not Apple-specific, it's not hard to imagine apps and websites adopting this standard at some point. I believe if nothing else, the Internet will have to reckon with the obsolescence of the captcha, and adopt something that provides greater assurance and accessibility.

So, no audio then? 😝

That would be rather frustrating. Hopefully Apple will not ignore this.

Hi Siobhan. Basically, the solution is in what Tyler wrote. I was mostly replying to say that I feel your pain. Certainly not trying to start an argument at all. Smiles
I'm assuming that you have also tried Safari? If you give me a page with one of these things that let's us party like it's 1999, I'll see if I can replicate and will file a bug report on it. If you do the same, and I can duplicate the issue, I'll file a bug report. I can't understand most audio captchas, but I can tell whether audio plays from them or not.

Well, I can't say how times and times again, AI assistance has helped me take a step closer to asserting my own liberty and independence, especially over here in the developing Vietnam. Don't mean to generalise, but more often than not, people are just too worn out with making ends meet to give a dang about accessibility. That's where learning to be resourceful, creative, compassion, and above all perhaps, learning to be patient is key to your survival and thriving to some extent haha 😝.
Just to give you an idea. All most all bank login portals here require capcha. The same for almost all other local daily apps like instant messaging and online-shopping. Even the government e-portals could not manage to squeeze in any accessible capcha solution whatsoever.
Those are the constant stream of instances that I really want to give community members like Chi Kim a curtsey while presenting my sincere gratitude. All thanks to tools like VOCR that I could jump through these hoops all on my own using its latest and presumably improved VO cursor OCR feature.
Btw, Be My Eyes is a good tool, but still, not having to depend on some other person does feel better.
Any-road, sorry for ranting all over. Please just delete my comment if it's out of place🙈.