I’m not blind but I browse with images disabled. This means I can no longer login to Protonmail because they push CAPTCHAs. I know some CAPTCHAs have an audio option but I just get a blank box from Protonmail’s CAPTCHA. So I was wondering how blind people deal with that, or if they are simply excluded from using #Protonmail.

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    1 year ago

    Do you mean you browse the internet in general with images disabled? If so, why?

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      1 year ago

      Saves a ton of bandwidth! And seems to lower memory use slightly.

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        1 year ago

        Indeed it saves bandwidth – which is particularly important for those with a limited connection. I like it as well because so many images actually downgrade the UX anyway.

        It’s a better carbon footprint to nix images but then we get punished for it by anti-bot websites. Bots also neglect to fetch images so I get hit with false positives for robots more frequently.

        (Not sure if mentions work on Lemmy… mentioning @aibler@lemmy.world for good measure)

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          1 year ago

          Fascinating. I never heard or thought about this. I think I quite like this idea.

          Thanks so much for the thoughtful mention, I can confirm that it did work, showed up in my inbox.