Ant Group announced to take the lead in setting up an ITU international standard for barrier-free identity identification, covering CAPTCHA codes, fingerprints, etc.

According to news from IT House on August 2, recently, the "demand for accessibility Identification Technology for visually impaired users" led by Ant Group and China Institute of Information and Communications announced the adoption of an international standard, which will be based on different barrier-free authentication technologies and formulate norms from technical requirements, privacy and security protection requirements, application access service processes, and other aspects.

According to reports, the standard is scheduled to be completed in April 2025. Specific accessibility identification technologies include accessibility verification codes such as "uniform" and "wave", barrier-free handwriting recognition, barrier-free face recognition, barrier-free fingerprint recognition, barrier-free voice print recognition, barrier-free password, barrier-free KBA, barrier-free OTP and so on.

CTOnews.com Note: the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is one of the three major international standardization organizations. Its members include more than 190 countries, more than 900 companies and academic institutions, and is one of the most authoritative national standard bodies in the world.