It's a cool idea. Also not usable by those who are visually impaired, as best I can tell.
I'm going to be honest, I think svetlana may be on to something. Risker/Anne On 3 December 2014 at 18:17, Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ryan Kaldari" <[email protected]> > > > spambots. We just have to jump out of the existing captcha design > > band-wagon. Here are some ideas: > > > Surely we can come up with a creative idea that is: > > * Easy for humans to solve > > * Can't be solved by out-of-the-box captcha breakers > > * Isn't trivial for programmers to solve > > I would like to suggest a slight variant on something google's doing > now, that I don't think they got quite right. > > Pick half a dozen animals of which there are many specie variants, say, > dog, cat, snake, bird, etc. > > Show the user one such animal, and a 3x3 grid with 4 animals from that > species, and 5 which are from the others, 64x64px ought to be plenty. > > Ask them to click on all the animals of the same species. Assuming > we can word that in a way that doesn't fail for people who don't know > species are. Without losing the advantages of using pictures by *saying* > "cat", that is. > > The key here is to make the evaluation criteria sufficiently clear; > the google implementation seems to require too much introspection into > which characteristics of the pictured object they want you to match. > > Once you've captcha'd then, you could, I would expect, put a cookie > on the browser good for some amount of time and hashed against, say, > the browser ID string or something so it's not portable? > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > [email protected] > Designer The Things I Think RFC > 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land > Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 > 1274 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
