Comment on Urgent Anti-Spam Measures

  1. samjohnsson Sun 04 Jan 2015 04:32PM UTC

    Purple clockwork gears

    I hope not - Captchas are notoriously inaccessible if you don't have good vision or hearing. On top of that, automated spam is starting to get smart enough to solve Captchas, that major providers such as Google are stepping away from them.

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    1. GinnyStar Sun 04 Jan 2015 07:02PM UTC

      GinnyStar Facing the camaera Dark brown hair, glasses and wearing a blue and grey checked shit with black overlay and sparkes

      Do you mean those thing that ask you to prove you are a human? I have both low vision and a hearing loss they are hard to do I agree with you.

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    2. Prismatic Bell (PrismaticBell) Sun 04 Jan 2015 11:29PM UTC

      Captcha 2 is an option, though. Instead of asking you to input words or numbers, it'll do things like ask questions in this vein:

      "What is Joe's name?"

      "In the list 2, 3, 7, 9, what is the only even number?"

       

      A bot can't figure out how to answer the question because the bot can't actually read the words in the sentence, and they're more accessible for folks with sight/hearing loss. The answer is always provided within the question itself, so all you have to do is pull it out, and Captcha 2 questions are very short, so should pose little difficulty for those with dyslexia.

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      1. Trialia Mon 05 Jan 2015 12:11AM UTC

        Trialia costumed as Elphaba (Wicked)

        The "even number" type ARE more problematic for people with dyscalculia, though. I'm not stupid, but my brain doesn't do numbers well, even simple ones.

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      2. Sara (Guest) Mon 05 Jan 2015 02:39AM UTC

        That kind of captcha can only be solved by people fluent in English though, so honest non-English speakers would be affected.

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