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On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 02:04:08PM -0400, Vincent Launchbury wrote: |
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> On 04/10/10 11:25, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > Yes, it does. However, I would tend to question how practical their |
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> > audio captcha is. Go to www.captcha.net and try the demo a few |
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> > times and see how much luck you have solving audio captchas from it. |
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> Just for reference, I tried 15 different sound clips and got 5 right. 9 |
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> were completely incomprehensible, 1 was fuzzy, and the other 5 were |
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> quite clear. |
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This is the issue with their solution. I personally have run into |
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situations where I have given up because I've tried several audio |
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captchas but been unable to understand them well enough to even guess. |
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> I'd agree that accessibility is important, but if a better solution |
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> doesn't end up working out, ReCaptcha should at least provide access for |
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> blind users, albeit inefficiently. |
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It is better than nothing, but only slightly so. As you discovered, |
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the captchas are quite difficult to solve. |
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William Hubbs |
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gentoo accessibility team lead |
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williamh@g.o |