On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Bawolff Bawolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Someone should write a browser addon to automatically decode and fill in > captchas for blind users. (Only half joking)
Don't joke, I have a blind relative who's screen reader does just that (simple captchas only). There are other services like http://www.azavia.com/zcaptcha which is specifically for the blind, but hell its probably cheaper to use the same captcha reading services that the spammers do. -- Chris On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Bawolff Bawolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2013-01-22 3:30 PM, "aude" <aude.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Luke Welling WMF < > lwell...@wikimedia.org > >wrote: > > > > > That was not the end of the problem I was referring to. We know our > > > specific captcha is broken at turning away machines. As far as I am > aware > > > we do not know how many humans are being turned away by the difficulty > of > > > it. > > > > > > It's at least impossible for blind users to solve the captcha, without an > > audio captcha. (unless they manage to find the toolserver account > creation > > thing and enough motivated to do that) > > > > I am not convinced of the benefits of captcha versus other spam filtering > > techniques. > > > > Cheers, > > Katie > > > > > > > > Someone should write a browser addon to automatically decode and fill in > captchas for blind users. (Only half joking) > > -bawolff > ______________________________**_________________ > > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l< > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > @wikimediadc / @wikidata > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
