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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."
Makes it useful.
If the campaign was taken over by bots?
there isnt a single thing that everyone will like or approve of.
let's say you change it do you have to answer a simple addition math problem. what you get is someone crying, "i have to answer 5+8?! but i dunno maths you insensitive clod!"
you know that person really exists.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
"W3C has suggested other techniques such as logic puzzles, limited-use accounts and non-interactive checks to prevent abuse such as fraudulent account creation and spamming."
Its going to be far harder to make an AI that can create a decent logic puzzle as well as make it accessible and hard for computers to solve than it it to make an image and warp it a bit. I think any such puzzle will probably be worse than the audio captcha button.
Not to mention, logic puzzles are unfair to people who have trouble understanding logic; which, in my experience, is damn near the entire human race.
Just swapping one type of perceived discrimination for another.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
Yeah, but we value what blind people have to say. "Damn near the entire human race" can go fuck themselves.
That's a feature, not a bug.
It's quite likely that some forums may prefer only letting in people capable of understanding logic, and there aren't any laws against discriminating against those people.
Even if there were, let them take you to court on it, it's not like they're going to be able to make a reasoned complaint, right? ...
You realize that many of the people complaining about captchas are blind, right?
Easily solved with an appropriate ALT tag, something like "A picture of a person holding a frankfurter in her right hand." In fact, can't all CAPTCHAS be fixed by simple use of the appropriate tag? "A picture of the characters E, Q, 3, 6, T and 9".