[nabs-l] YouTube.

[Corbb O'Connor]

Hi Priscilla,

I encourage you to read the thread about the Facebook group, as I and  
others have explained visual captchas there.

Here's what I have previously said: "The sounds in audio captchas are  
distorted to stop spammers from using speech-to-text conversion, and  
the distorted characters in the visual captchas is to stop spammers  
from using OCR converters, like Kurzweil uses. I have been thinking on  
this for awhile, and I don't see a solution (pardon the pun) that  
still offers the webmaster a spam-free system. As I said, I empathize  
with the deaf-blind who cannot use the audio captchas, and I  
completely understand--as I am blind too--the trouble the blind have  
with visual captchas. Any techies out there that might know of a  
potential solution, I'm all ears! Actually -- I do know that Google  
uses a system where they send an SMS text message to confirm that you  
aren't a spammer, and I wonder how well that works since a spammer  
could setup a cell phone relay to thwart the system. Hmmmm! The debate  
continues!"

-Corbb

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Corbb O'Connor
studying at the National University of Ireland, Galway

On Nov 5, 2008, at 9:47 PM, priscilla wrote:

Hey listers,
I am posting because I am rather annoyed

I am pretty annoyed because I don't understand why people have to use  
the visual verification codes for security reasons.
Why don't they challenge people with a secret question we can answer  
instead?
I wanted to sign up for YouTube but couldn't without my roomate's help  
because of the annoying verification image.
the worse part of this is that there is no alternative given to those  
of us who are visually impaired.
this is not only me who is annoyed, but everyone else would also agree  
with me on that matter.

anyway, I updated my live journal
go to : Priscy21.livejournal.com

Thank you very much.

Priscilla
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