[Nfb-web] Captcha Alternatives

[E.J. Zufelt]

Akismet is available for WP and Drupal as well. You need the correct module to use it w/ Drupal, I am not sure about WP integration. Of course, the Drupal module is free, as is Drupal and all other Drupal modules on drupal.org

Note that there is a free Akismet subscription, I use it on my site and it blocks approximately 50 spam comments / day.

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On 2011-06-26, at 4:20 PM, Peter Donahue wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
>    This whole issue has caused me to seek out alternatives to captchas and 
> the problems they cause for all Web site visitors. Being a ColdFusion 
> developer I was delighted to discover a utility called "CFForm Protect." 
> This plug-in does its work behind-the-scenes and requires no user 
> interaction removing the need to deal with traditional captchas and the 
> accessibility issues they create for the blind. To learn more about CFForm 
> Protect visit:
> http://cfformprotect.riaforge.org/
> 
>    To see a demonstration of how it works visit:
> http://www.nfb-writers-division.net/blog
> 
>    We currently have CFForm Protect running on the blog and will role it 
> out to other interactive components of this Web site in the coming months.
> I'll also be installing it on several other ColdFusion sites I'm creating or 
> will build in the future. Want to give it a go? Select the link to the blog 
> post and leave a comment. In your comment type more than six URLS, enter 
> words and phrases such as free music download, or Viagra and see what 
> happens. In the future CFForm Protects capabilities will be enhanced by 
> linking it to Akismet and Project Honeypot.com.
> 
>    One idea I suggested to control spam while not locking out blind Web 
> surfers is to find a utility that will compare a would-be spammer's IP 
> address with those of known spammers and preventing that spam bot from 
> entering data in to the form. Project Honeypot does exactly that! The IP 
> address of an entity attempting to fill out a Web form is compared with 
> Honeypot's extensive database of IP Addresses of known spammers. If a match 
> is not found the entity is allowed to fill out the Web site form. If a match 
> is found the entity attempting to fill out the form is prevented from doing 
> so thus protecting the site's owners from spam bots. Working with CFForm 
> Protect Project Honeypot gathers flagged form entries belonging to would-be 
> spammers and adds their IP addresses to its database. Hence we can do a 
> little community service as well as protecting our Web sites from spam bots 
> all with out creating accessibility barriers for blind computer users! 
> Project Honeypot is a free service.
> 
>    Akismet is a paid service that can determine if the entity filling out a 
> Web form is a spammer or not. If it flaggs the entity as a spammer it 
> notifies the site owner so they can take further action.
> 
>    My discovery of CFFormProtect has me wondering if there are similar 
> plugging, components, and utilities developed for other Web development 
> environments: ASP, PHP, ASP.NET, ETC. Perhaps this is a matter for our 
> Webmasters and the IBTC to explore and gather information about these 
> products and services. Whenever someone seeks our help to make their Web 
> site accessible we can recommend the installation of one of these programs 
> instead of captchas and the problems they create for blind and deaf-blind 
> computer users. Just thought I would spread the word.
> 
> Peter Donahue
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ken lawrence" <kenlawrence124 at aol.com>
> To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 4:21 PM
> Subject: [gui-talk] will Webvisum be rendered useless?
> 
> 
> Hi Ken here.  I read in Kim Komando’s email that firefox has started a new 
> schedule they will be new versions of the browser every too months.  I just 
> got the update automaticly today and they are recommending you install it 
> since no more updates will be made for version 4.  So in two months for 
> example version 6 or maybe 5 point something or other.  Webvisum has been 
> disabled since it isn’t updated.  the firefox browser says it will enable it 
> if it has an update.  But can webvisum possible keep up with a two months 
> schedule?  is our capcha solver useless thanks to this new timetable by 
> firefox?
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