[nabs-l] Capta

[Nicole B. Torcolini]

It is really annoying. The idea is that a computer cannot hack it because 
the print is not recognizable by OCR and the speech is to unintelligible to 
be recognized. It seems to work fine for sighted people; I think that the 
most tries that a sighted person ever had to do on it was 3, but I couldn't 
understand the speech if I listened to it 1000000 times. There is discussion 
about alternative methods of security, such as writing out a question that 
only has one answer but that a computer would not be able to understand. For 
example:
what is 1+1
and
what is one plus one
mean the same thing to a human and would result in
2
or two
but a computer probably has less of a chance of understanding the writing 
than it would understanding the math.

Nicole

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob" <rmlambert1987 at yahoo.com>
To: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>; "National Association of 
Blind Students mailing list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Capta


> Captcha is a visual utility implemented for security - to tell the 
> difference between a human & a computer. It is not accessible by screen 
> readers, hence the assistance website.
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
> On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:09 PM, "Ashley  Bramlett" 
> <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> What is CAPTA?  Maybe the advocacy program for your state.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicole B. Torcolini" 
>> <ntorcolini at wavecable.com>
>> To: "NABS-L" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 7:11 PM
>> Subject: [nabs-l] Capta
>>
>>
>>> Does anyone know the information for the capta assistance website?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Nicole
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