I agree that captchas are not a very good solution, though there are not really many viable alternatives out there. Some places make you do a simple math problem, like 3 + 4 or something like that, but if a bot knows the nature of the captcha requested, it could easily perform any math asked for. Others are more complex, but are generally in image or flash so no more useful to blind people.
I appreciate Buddy Brannan's mention of ZCaptcha. Of course I am biased, but i believe it is one of the only universally viable solutions out there, though as you mentioned it is unfortunate that blind people must pay where sighted people do not. Perhaps the technically inclined among us can pull our resources and think of other possible solutions that would be at least just as effective as captchas at blocking out spam bots. The other side to this is that captchas are not always good at blocking spam either. I run a VBulletin forum, and though we have employed captchas in the past, we still got just as much spam as without. So, captchas are forced to become more complex, while spam bots seem to easily keep up with the demand. Regards, Brandon Olivares Azavia Technologies New: ZCaptcha — The Captcha Reader On Oct 8, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Scott Rumery <blindfait...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to share my latest blog post with you this morning. It is my > intention in doing so to hopefully begin a conversation the subject and who > knows, maybe we can all work together to see if we can find a solution to > this problem. > > Please leave me any comments that you have. > > Scott >> Fedora Outlier LLC has posted a new item, 'The Blind Need Not Apply' >> >> Have you ever been trying to sign up for a new service on the Internet only >> to >> find after going through the steps in order to set up your account, you are >> asked to type in the characters shown in the box below? This is called a >> CAPTCHA >> and they are completely inaccessible to the blind. >> >> You may view the latest post at >> http://www.fedoraoutlier.com/the-blind-need-not-apply/ >> >> You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates >> are >> posted. >> Best regards, >> Fedora Outlier LLC >> excelle...@fedoraoutlier.com >> > > -- > 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.
