iamlost - 11:31 pm on Feb 21, 2006 (gmt 0)

My initial thought, like mona's, was "here come the lawyers" but after reading the linked reference article,
Is Google Shutting Out The Blind? [internetnews.com] dated July 8, 2005 the petitioner is holding Google to it's word on a specific issue.

Google is working on it, said Marissa Mayer, director of consumer products. "We are planning on releasing some alternatives in the next one to two months that make our current captchas more compatible with screen readers, and we're looking into audio captchas," Mayer said. .... Sight-impaired Google fans can expect that to change within a month, Mayer said. "I'd anticipate we'd have a release that improves this issue in the next month or so," she said, "and one that really solves the problem, hopefully, in the month after that."

Apparently Ms. Mayer's 'accessible' captcha release date was somewhat optimistic. Now possibly April.

The writer (rather than the petitioner) may have more of an agenda: reads to me like a case of holding Google's feet to the fire, taking a swipe at Yahoo, and patting MSN and MSFT on the back.

No lawyers in sight yet. Maybe I need new glasses.