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Karl Groves
Personal blog · karlgroves.comwebdesign
Karl Groves's personal blog at karlgroves.com covers web and design. Since 2011, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “List of Resources: Breaking CAPTCHA ”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Karl Groves's web accessibility writing, including his critique of accessibility overlay products and a list of resources on breaking CAPTCHAs, cited in a discussion of an AI captcha-breaking claim.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Web Accessibility Viking
Most-linked posts?
- List of Resources: Breaking CAPTCHA 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-28
- Links Are Not Buttons2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-15
What Hacker News says?
Karl Groves, the "Web Accessibility Viking" wrote a great piece* naming several "accessibility-overlay" services that make matters much worse... As a result he is getting sued into oblivion by said company... *People with disabilities hate overlays yet an overlay company is suing its critic, now snubbed from the internet (article scrubbed from his site). https://karlgroves.com/people-with-disabilities-hate-overlay...
Comment linking /people-with-disabilities-hate-overlays-yet-an-overlay-company-is-suing-its-critics/
on “For blind internet users, the fix can be worse than the flaws”Submitted Links are not buttons (2013) as a story · 136 points
HN discussionThis is cool, but there's no indication from the article that it's novel, or that it's better than existing methods. The article linked to 28 other different systems that have claimed to beat / demonstrated beating captchas at some point: http://www.karlgroves.com/2013/02/09/list-of-resources-break... . Without a performance comparison to existing methodologies on a benchmark dataset and precise details on the model…
Comment linking /2013/02/09/list-of-resources-breaking-captcha/
on “AI Startup Says It Has Defeated Captchas”Submitted Some tough love: Stop the excuses, already as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wasn't under the impression it is a W3C site, for all I know it is AI generated and looks it to me. But, there are other blog posts I've coming across where this is discussed and that site did outline my point well enough which is changing norms like this can be hard for screen reader users who need to adapt to <a>, <button> and <button action> being controls performing very similar if not overlapping behaviour. C…
Comment linking /links-are-not-buttons-neither-are-divs-and-spans/
on “The Difference Between a Button and a Link”Submitted AI Is the Future of Accessibility as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Links Are Not Buttons as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Links Are Not Buttons. Neither Are DIVs and SPANs – Karl Groves as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Links are not buttons. Neither are DIVs and SPANs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted List of Resources: Breaking CAPTCHA as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Barriers to Improving the Accessibility Game Plan as a story · 1 points
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