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Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off

Bismillah writes "CAPTCHA may be popular with webmasters and others running different sites, but it's a source of annoyance to blind and partially sighted people — and dyslexic people and older ones — who often end up being locked out of important websites as they can't read wonky, obfuscated letters any more than spambots can. A campaign in Australia has started to rid sites of CAPTCHA to improve accessibility for everyone."

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  1. Re:How else do I protect my forms by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    from automated submissions?

    If you don't know any alternatives, you shouldn't be administering them.