Re: [fossil-users] Captcha and blind and visually impaired users

2014-10-06 Thread Rob
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Legend has it that on 06/10/2014 22:35, the fair wind whisper'd the words of Ron W: > It is doable, but a bot would still be able to read and interpret > it. Theoretically speaking, making an automatic captcha solver for Fossil's current ascii art

Re: [fossil-users] Captcha and blind and visually impaired users

2014-10-06 Thread Ron W
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Rob wrote: > > Do youthink it would be possible to implement a very simple textual > captcha that randomizes a few numbers and a few operations and asks > for the result? > I think that should be fairly secure, especially if we output numbers > as letters (one, two,

Re: [fossil-users] Captcha and blind and visually impaired users

2014-10-06 Thread Rob
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Legend has it that on 06/10/2014 19:42, the fair wind whisper'd the words of Ron W: > An audio CAPTCHA is possible, but you would need help from a > webserver Do youthink it would be possible to implement a very simple textual captcha that randomi

Re: [fossil-users] Captcha and blind and visually impaired users

2014-10-06 Thread Ron W
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Rob wrote: > Legend has it that on 05/10/2014 18:55, the fair wind whisper'd the > words of Stephan Beal: > > i.e. what i'm afraid of is that once you start hosting a repo with > > such an option for the registration page, some bot is going to come > > along, regis

Re: [fossil-users] Captcha and blind and visually impaired users

2014-10-06 Thread Rob
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Legend has it that on 05/10/2014 19:47, the fair wind whisper'd the words of Stephan Beal: > Agreed completely, but most people, i assume, who are contributing > to the wiki and tickets are capable of entering a captcha? Yes, the keyword here b

Re: [fossil-users] Captcha and blind and visually impaired users

2014-10-05 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Rob wrote: > repository as you said. If the registration is too hard (e.g. takes > too much time or is unsolvable), users are not going to register to > report bugs, contribute to the wiki, etc. > Agreed completely, but most people, i assume, who are contributing

Re: [fossil-users] Captcha and blind and visually impaired users

2014-10-05 Thread Rob
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Legend has it that on 05/10/2014 18:55, the fair wind whisper'd the words of Stephan Beal: > i.e. what i'm afraid of is that once you start hosting a repo with > such an option for the registration page, some bot is going to come > along, register

Re: [fossil-users] Captcha and blind and visually impaired users

2014-10-05 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Rob wrote: > For the anonymous user this is not an issue, as it is possible to > autofill the password, however when a new user wishes to register, > there is no such option for the captcha. > Is there a way to add this autofill feature, possibly as a toggleable >

[fossil-users] Captcha and blind and visually impaired users

2014-10-05 Thread Rob
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, As it stands, Fossil is using ASCII art to display captchas. Unfortunately, this is impossible to interpret for screen reader users, i.e. the blind and visually impaired. For the anonymous user this is not an issue, as it is possible to autofil