I second that. We cannot nearly request that security be lowered for our sake. I believe your explanations are very educative, specially to those who are not aware of the difficulties developers face. However, I feel there is a place also for the expression of the frustrations with in reason, because is from those frustrations that designers can understand unmet needs. The ideas and potential solutions can only spring from good conversations such as the one we are having.! I love this list. Never seen more civilize people working together. Only harmony can bring productive results, and I think it is awesome having awesome knowledge as everyone here with their experiences. Thanks Chris and every one. Keep your comments coming! Cheer up, RM On Sep 12, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
> It all comes down to the purpose of captcha. It is a cognitive test by > supplying a puzzle that would be difficult for a computer to solve to try and > prove you're not a bot. Today there are very few of those kinds of puzzles. > Image and audio recognition are about the only two that haven't been cracked > and it's turned into an arms race. Eventually the algorithms will be > sophisticated enough that they will either mimic human behavior undetectably > or the cognitive load to solve the captchas will increase to the point where > real people can't solve them (already happening). Either scenario ends badly > for those trying to protect the integrity of their content sites. In the > meantime, just saying the current stuff doesn't work doesn't help because > nobody has come up with a better solution. Anything that lowers the puzzle > difficulty also makes it easier for the algorithms to solve. > > Some previous discussions on this list: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@macvisionaries.com/msg43663.html > > CB > > On 9/12/11 4:04 AM, Adie wrote: >> >> Guys, >> >> I am fed up of audio captcha. My Member of Parliament currently has a >> question in to the UK Prime Minister about use of audio capcha on >> government websites. I know it's a drag, but we need to challenge >> these things every time we come across them. I was on a site the other >> day which had a simple equation instead of an audio captcha. It was a >> joy. >> >> BTW, I love the bit where it says the audio captcha is to test whether >> or not you are a human being. I always write to them saying that, >> despite the fact that I can't see, I am nevertheless a human. >> >> Cheers >> >> Adrienne >> On Sep 11, 9:05 pm, Eric Oyen<eric.o...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I find that rather interesting. now why would the general public (and >>> business professionals) get the impression that mozilla was the most >>> accessible web browser for any OS? sure it works well with windoweeyes and >>> jaws in the windows platform. it also works mostly with orca in linux. it >>> does not work at all in OS X with voiceover (and I have even tried growl >>> with it and still had a lot of issues). >>> >>> I have sent more than a few emails over the last few years and all I get >>> back is nothing but a load of crapola and finger pointing. now I know we >>> can't prevail upon a bunch of volunteer code monkeys and still have them do >>> the work. if they were paid and we wrote the checks, that would certainly >>> be a different case. >>> >>> -Eric >>> On Sep 11, 2011, at 12:43 AM, Rachel magario wrote:> the sad part is that >>> loads of programers think firefox is the most accessible browser out there. >>> They get shocked to find it does not work on the mac. I recall a programer >>> at my work insisted that I should use mozilla. Only after he tried using it >>> with vo by him self, was when the message got across! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
