Hello all, my name's Craig, and I thought it best to post this to the development list, rather than support, as it's more of an issue that devs will need to sort out, than a help request, as I already got a friend to help in this instance.
I am totally blind, so use software on my computer that reads everything back to me, like text to speech, but it doesnt read captchas. I have another bit of software that can solve captchas but only one per page, so the web of trust page, for instance, that has 17 or so captchas on it can't cope with it, so this creates an access barrier. Luckily I had a friend I could send over the screen shots of the pages too, to get them to send me back the captchas, but this isn't really the point. I understand that there needs to be tight security, to stop people creating identities on web of trust, and then using said identities to spam and be trusted inherantly, without proving that they are actually human, and the fact the system is anonymous wouldn't obviously allow for people to use things like twitter or facebook to verify their web of trust identity, but I'm hoping that someone can come up with an idea that is more accessible than captchas, but still keeps out bots. I thought maybe logic questions, or mathematical questions but I dont know if bots are clever enough to understand those, I suspect some are, so i'm not sure of the solution? Maybe a system where if you are blind you're advised to email either the support or development list with your web of trust ID and ask for someone to validate it and add it to a list of ids that would be manually trusted by developers after it passes some sort of anti spam test. if there was a sudden spike in emails, and say 100 emails came in in five minutes, then the people on the list would be more wary thinking it was spam, as its more manual than the captcha process and this might be the way to do it? take care craig.
