Would it help if Capital letters will be used instead of small ones?
And maybe there will be text like: Captcha consist of English letters 'A' -
'Z' only ....

On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 02:49, Robert Savickas <robsavic...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
> My users, some of whom use non-Latin alfabets, have no problem with using
> Latin letters in the captcha.
>
> My current problem with the captcha, shared by my users is that the
> characters are often hard to recognize. Capital I vesus small l.  Or
> capital I verus ].  Or m versus n. Or g versus q.  Often, the letters are
> sufficiently deformed so as to be difficult not only to Robot, but also to
> Robert and other humans to distinguish.  As a result, several captchas are
> often needed till a person can get it.
>
> Granted, it is a terrific tool for teaching folks how to have patience,
> highly recommended. But sometimes, folks are under the time pressure to
> enter the meeting (now, why do they try to connect only in the very last
> minute, that's a separate question)...
>
> Thank you.
> Robert
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2020, 08:48 Maxim Solodovnik <solomax...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> the bad news: there seems to be no universal way to determine alphabet by
>> language
>> the ugly news: there are languages without alphabet ....
>>
>> start and end character can be manually specified here
>> https://github.com/apache/openmeetings/blob/master/openmeetings-web/src/main/webapp/languages/languages.xml
>>
>> Another option might be to made this range _optional_
>> so 'a' - 'z' will be used if else is not specified ....
>> Not sure is someone will bother to specify different range ...
>>
>> but I'm not sure how good is this idea :(((
>>
>> @Robert what kind of difficulties your user have with the captcha?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 20:28, Ali Alhaidary <ali.alhaid...@the5stars.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> We can write the language name on the 'new user' or 'change password'
>>> screens ...
>>>
>>> On 12/2/20 4:24 PM, Maxim Solodovnik wrote:
>>> > It is definitely can be localized
>>> > unfortunately this might lead to issues with guessing the text
>>> > for ex. many letters in Russian looks exactly as in English but the
>>> > text will not be equal :((
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 19:05, Ali Alhaidary <
>>> ali.alhaid...@the5stars.org> wrote:
>>> >> If no votes are collected, can we localize it?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31828048/how-to-set-localization-in-google-recaptcha
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On 12/2/20 2:59 PM, Ali Alhaidary wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Any more votes?
>>> >>
>>> >> On 12/1/20 2:22 PM, Ali Alhaidary wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I am with it :-)
>>> >>
>>> >> On 12/1/20 2:58 AM, Maxim Solodovnik wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> And as usual I'll add such switch if there will be enough votes for it
>>> >> while I, personally, will not recommend to use it
>>> >>
>>> >> On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 13:14, Ali Alhaidary <
>>> ali.alhaid...@the5stars.org> wrote:
>>> >>> True, one can not always get what he loves :-)
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On 11/30/20 9:12 AM, Maxim Solodovnik wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Well,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I'm not a big fan of such "enhancements"
>>> >>> with all these options password "can be 'qwerty' again" ....
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 12:58, Ali Alhaidary <
>>> ali.alhaid...@the5stars.org> wrote:
>>> >>>> I would love it to be an option like caps and special characters,
>>> especially with the difficulty of RTL users like ours :-)
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> On 11/30/20 8:42 AM, Maxim Solodovnik wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Hello Robert,
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> it is currently impossible without code modification
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 at 14:37, Robert Savickas <
>>> robsavic...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>>>> Dear Maxim,
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Is there a way to disable captcha when changing the password? The
>>> images are often difficult to read, and many users have to reset the
>>> captcha image a few times, till they finally get it.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Thank you.
>>> >>>>> Robert
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> On Sun, Nov 29, 2020, 01:15 Maxim Solodovnik <solomax...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>>>>> Hello all,
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> I have added notifications to OM (as part of OPENMEETINGS-2190)
>>> >>>>>> Could you please  take a look at demo-next and tell me WDYT?
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> maybe it should be improved somehow?
>>> >>>>>> text, icon, anything else :)
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> --
>>> >>>>>> Best regards,
>>> >>>>>> Maxim
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> --
>>> >>>> Best regards,
>>> >>>> Maxim
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> --
>>> >>> Best regards,
>>> >>> Maxim
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> Best regards,
>>> >> Maxim
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Maxim
>>
>

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Best regards,
Maxim

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