Hi all It's not just people with hearing impairments who have trouble with these audio captchas. They are, generally speaking, of appalling quality. The ones which contain a sentence, as opposed to unrelated words and numbers, are a little easier, but really, how can any site think they are fit for purpose?
I usually try to record what the thing says, but it often is completely indecipherable. Sometimes I swear I have it right and it still rejects it. The site which most annoys me is the UK govt e-petitions site, which has these for all signatories. My MP even complained to the Cabinet Office and we just got the brush off. Have any of these people ever tried one of these themselves? I think not. It is particularly offensive when they then tell you it's to test if you are human. Presumably they thk we are not. Anyway, even I sometimes get fed up of complaining about them to site owners, but I suppose we just have to keep doing it until they stop using them. There are other more accessible solutions to the humanity thing. Grump Adrienne On Feb 14, 8:28 pm, Mark BurningHawk Baxter <markbaxte...@gmail.com> wrote: > Google, FB, Twitter, all have audio captchas. for people with hearing loss, > these prove abysmally challenging, but even I have managed to solve them. > They're not at all easy, and I dread the thought of trying to re-sign-up for > Craigslist because of this. > > • Mark BurningHawk Baxter > • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 > • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com > • My home page: > •http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
