[nabs-l] Capta

[Peter Donahue]

Good morning everyone,

    And if you're blind and deaf you really have a problem with these 
things. Much has been done to create audio alternatives but nothing is being 
done to make these CAPTCHAs make their information available tactually. I've 
said it before and will say it again. If we can build an interface to allow 
a blind person to drive a car independently we should be able to create a 
way for screen readers to read CAPTCHA information and reproduce it both 
audibly and tactually so those with severe hearing impairments can have full 
access to Web sites where these things are used. In light of our work with 
Virginia Tech the excuse that the technology to accomplish this isn't there 
doesn't wash with me. The same is also true of the blind driver interface 
but we're moving full speed ahead on that one. We should be doing the same 
with improving the usability of CAPTCHAS.

Peter Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nicole B. Torcolini" <ntorcolini at wavecable.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 1:07 AM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Capta


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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