..:: captcha what? ::..

Okay so I am trying to leave a comment on one of my friends blogs tonight, when all of the sudden I see this message pop up in the spot where the captcha image is supposed to be...


Okay... so, what now... Am I actually supposed to type in "Visual verification" as my captcha message? I mean, what the heck is this all about? I'm freaked out... I don't know what to do. My familiar routine has been broken.

There are some strange things going on in the Internet world tonight... first of all, I'm surfing along, minding my own business, chilling on Eric M's blog when all the sudden I reach a complete dead end... the end of the Internet as we know it - (see post). So I make a u-turn and head back into what I thought was "normality" and then I run into this little snafu... what the heck is going on? I'm scared!

Kidding... I'm not actually scared... well, maybe just a little. But there is something definitely not right with the world tonight.

Oh yeah, and one more thing. Take another good look at this image...



Do you see the little blue handicap dude sitting in his wheelchair? I really do not get the point of this.

Apparently this little blue "wheelchair dude" is an audio alternative to the captcha image for people who cannot see. You click on "little blue wheelchair dude" and you get a a scrambled audio version of a captcha image instead of having to read it.

??????

Does anybody else see the irony in that? I mean, if Mr. blind web surfer cannot see the captcha image, how in the heck is he going to find the little blue handicap dude in order to click on him?

Heck, the little blue handicap dude is smaller and harder to see than the captcha image. Not only that, but how is the blind surfer going to even know where his mouse cursor is on the screen, much less position it over the little blue handicap dude. I mean come on Google... I thought you guys were supposed to be so brilliant. Kinda dropped the ball on that one... I'm just sayin'