What it says is that one viable way to get rid of these stupid things may involve ADA lawsuits. Hopefully anti-discrimination lawyers are paying attention. Google has some pretty deep pockets, as do many websites that employ CAPTCHAS.

Failing that, we can't be more than a couple of years away from generalized solvers that can simply be implemented as browser plugins, at least on the desktop. The job of coming up with a fair, equitable and non-discriminatory test that only humans can pass is going to be an impossible one.