[Nfb-web] Captcha Question

Wed Feb 20 20:11:42 UTC 2013

This is an interesting story and probably gives us a better chance to solve these, but even here I hear alarm bells such as being 
requested to draw a circle around a specific item or identify a company logo.  I suspect we're going to face some similar problems 
in that involving graphics in some way seems to be a major component in separating human beings from computers.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:02:30 -0600, Stephen Guerra wrote:

>Hey all-

>Read what I just found on the web 
>http://news.yahoo.com/internet-advertisers-kill-text-based-captcha-205416291
>.html

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nfb-web [mailto:nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jonas Voll
>Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:58 PM
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>Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] Captcha Question

>Well as we all can see there is many ways to do it!
>Maybe the best way is to offer more then one solution, I forgot about the
>phone one but that is good if you have one!
>FYI, the phone method doesn't need to be a CELL, can be a land line, I did a
>land line with some Google stuff!

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nfb-web [mailto:nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Curtis Chong
>Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:50 PM
>To: 'NFB Webmaster's List'
>Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] Captcha Question

>Greetings:

>The visual and audio CAPTCHAs in use are not accessible to the blind.  I
>suggest a different way to secure your site.  Creative minds can come up
>with a solution, and there was one implemented that involved something to do
>with texting to a cell phone, but even that is a problem for those blind
>people who do not have accessible cell phones.

>I am sorry not to have a ready made solution for you, but I strongly urge
>avoiding the CAPTCHA altogether.

>Cordially,

>Curtis Chong

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nfb-web [mailto:nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Sykes
>Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 11:20 AM
>To: nfb-web at nfbnet.org
>Subject: [Nfb-web] Captcha Question

>Good morning,

>Can someone please point me in the right direction to find captcha that is
>accessible to blind users? My office needs to make our online member
>registration forms more secure, but we need to maintain accessibility and
>our IT guys need some specific direction.

>Thanks in advance!

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