Hey, I posted the following to the Ning team and got an answer back. See below. "You suffer from what is called an accessibility fail. Seeing that approx 25% of all internet users suffer from some kind of handicap (ref. WAI) it amazes me to see that you actually have DISABLED THE AUDIO CAPTCHA from ReCaptcha. See the linked discussion at the Accessibility Fail forum. Disabling the audio version due to layout is just evil and badly thought out."
Response from the Ning team: "I'm glad you contacted us about this issue, as it's something we hope to change in the future. We did not disable the audio Captcha, but rather our platform does not yet support this option. While we hope to offer an audio captcha soon, in the mean time we are happy to help future members sign up if they contact the Help Center directly. Let me know if you have any other questions."
So this means the only way for handicapped web users is to go through the Help Center. I'm not visually handicapped, and even I had trouble finding a way to contact them directly, being sent back and forth between the various help sections. But at least they seem to be working on something ...
Response from the Ning team!
"You suffer from what is called an accessibility fail. Seeing that approx 25% of all internet users suffer from some kind of handicap (ref. WAI) it amazes me to see that you actually have DISABLED THE AUDIO CAPTCHA from ReCaptcha. See the linked discussion at the Accessibility Fail forum. Disabling the audio version due to layout is just evil and badly thought out."
Response from the Ning team:
"I'm glad you contacted us about this issue, as it's something we hope to change in the future. We did not disable the audio Captcha, but rather our platform does not yet support this option. While we hope to offer an audio captcha soon, in the mean time we are happy to help future members sign up if they contact the Help Center directly. Let me know if you have any other questions."
So this means the only way for handicapped web users is to go through the Help Center. I'm not visually handicapped, and even I had trouble finding a way to contact them directly, being sent back and forth between the various help sections. But at least they seem to be working on something ...