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From: "René 'Necoro' Neumann" <lists@××××××.eu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:26:37
Message-Id: 4BC0C2CA.1000600@necoro.eu
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
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4 Am 10.04.2010 20:11, schrieb Duncan:
5 > William Hubbs posted on Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:18:41 -0500 as excerpted:
6 >
7 >> - a phrase captcha (complete the phrase)
8 >
9 > The thing I've always read about these is that they tend to discriminate
10 > against those for whom the language isn't their native language.
11 [...]
12 > Spelling captchas...
13 > tend to run into problems with folks that can't spell. That's apparently
14 > a big enough problem a lot of sites try and reject spelling captchas.
15
16 Both points also apply to the audio captcha, as you have to a)
17 understand the word and b) from this infer the correct writing. Which
18 becomes even more difficult as English is a language, where the
19 spelling/pronounciation-relation is quite loose (plus you have
20 British/American spelling varieties).
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22 - - René
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