[gui-talk] CAPTCHA is Frustrating; Solution Needed

[Jude DaShiell]

Some websites are covered and when they are, accessible capttas or no 
capttas are their only statutory options all else is unlawful. On Fri, 1 
Feb 2013, Jen wrote:

> 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. 
> 
> 
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