Comments on: captcha gone very very wrong

By: Cialis USA

Cialis USA — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:27:59 +0000

For a system that works *right*, look at Making Light (although they don’t have a captcha at all; I don’t know how effective the mandatory preview by itself is at deterring spambots.)

By: government grants

government grants — Mon, 01 May 2006 20:23:00 +0000

you might want to check this out…
federal grants

By: zephoria

zephoria — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:07:07 +0000

Blissy – yeah, you exceeded the number of links so it had to go to moderation

By: Blissyu2

Blissyu2 — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 04:48:38 +0000

Speaking of which, you refused to post my comment in your Wikipedia entry. Was there a problem with it? I am a bit confused.

By: Kelly G

Kelly G — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 20:56:18 +0000

This is an issue that needs to be dealt with. In thinking about accessibility think about all of your senses and varying combinations.

It is common for people to think that one solution is an audio captcha. You forget that there are those of us tht have eyes *and* ears that don’t work (the greatest).

Why is there a need for the wierd backgrounds that make it hard to pull out the letters? Why the squiggled letters that make it hard to tell if you’re looking at lower case, upper case or (sometimes!) a number! The one for this blog is at visably discernable if I get close and make it bigger.
Some sites use catpcha that require vision but not excellent vision and do have an audio captch as well.
Is a spam bot actually better deterred by these more difficult versions of captcha? Of course, this comment doesn’t come close to an answer All I can do, at this time, is to make sure that people keep thinking about these issues and don’t settle for “solutions” that cause blocks for others.
Kelly G

By: Betsy Devine

Betsy Devine — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:52:19 +0000

And here I thought you were leading up to a link to the cute-kitten substitute for Capchas…

I love your picture of kittens, btw…

By: Eddie Goldman

Eddie Goldman — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 06:10:13 +0000

The first step is building awareness that there is a major problem with captchas. I know this issue has been raised on the American Foundation for the Blind’s site and other sites dealing with online media.

Right now most of these web outfits using captchas don’t care because they think that the people who have difficulty reading these are not important to them because they are either too old, blind, visually-impaired, etc. Maybe if some of us showed up with picket signs outside their fancy headquarters and organized an online campaign against them, they would be forced to back down.

It may be time-consuming, but I put in comment moderation rather than captchas on my blog. I don’t have huge traffic or many comments, but this has kept out a number of spammers.

So thanks for raising this issue.

By: ab

ab — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:47:24 +0000

So… you’ve seen this, right?

http://www.thepcspy.com/kittenauthtest

By: Kevin Marks

Kevin Marks — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:34:18 +0000

Here’s some more on kitten captcha stuff.
How about a real Turing test – you have to convince the computer that you’re a woman in a 5 minute chat.

By: leslie

leslie — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:11:17 +0000

When I first saw this post, I assumed that you were talking about how web sites have started to use cats as CAPTCHAs.

For example, the CAPTCHA for the image above might be, how many cute cats do you see?