[gui-talk] CAPTCHA is Frustrating; Solution Needed

[Jen]

Hi Rick,

Your solutions are great ideas!

Re: "Of course, convincing site administrators to use it would be 
another problem."

Unfortunately, you're right about that. And I think the reason is, 
although there are many blind people in the world, we're a very small 
part of the population because most people are sighted.

The thing is, doesn't the ADA cover Web sites? If it does, aren't the 
site administrators legally obligated to have accessible CAPTCHA option?

 ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Roderick" <rickrod at insightbb.com>
To: "Jen" <spiderweb1 at sbcglobal.net>; "Discussion of the Graphical User 
Interface,GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] CAPTCHA is Frustrating; Solution Needed


Another problem is that the audio captchas are often not much use.  I am
hard of hearing, and I often find the audio versions so distorted that I
can't figure out what is said.

Perhaps, an alternative would be the need to answer a simple question. 
For
example, write the following numbers in reverse order, 26791.  One would
then write 19762.

Give a homonym of would, wood.

In the sequence, 2, 24, 6, 8, 10, what would the next number be?  Of 
course,
the answer would be 12.

It should be easy enough that most people would be able to do it but 
done in
such a way that a machine would be unlikely to figure it out.

Of course, convincing site administrators to use it would be another 
problem.