On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > On 2014-08-13 12:24, Chris Kaynor wrote: >> Many of the better captchas also include options for an audio cue in >> addition to the default visual one. > > Have you actually tried to use the audio cue? They're atrocious. I > got more intelligible words out of my old 8-bit SoundBlaster or a > de-tuned radio station. I'm all for just ditching them (and avoiding > sites that employ them).
Just like the images, if they were easy to understand then they would be easily defeated by a spambot with a speech recognition module. I think the effort to make captcha systems more accessible is laudable, if perhaps misguided. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list