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Given how well text-recognition works now, I'm sure it's absolutely wonderful at keeping out blind people.
by msla 8y ago
Given how well text-recognition works now, I'm sure it's absolutely wonderful at keeping out blind people.
- dmix 8y agoIt's a very difficult problem to solve for small independent blogs like this... without handing over your data to Disqus or some 3rd party captcha system. Not everyone is comfortable with using those. Not that it isn't still a problem and trade-off.
- TimesOldRoman 8y agoWould the "click all fire hydrants" type be easier to program and add accessibility support?
- dmix 8y agoI hate those picture ones. They all seem to take longer than figuring out the skewed text. But I might be in the minority opinion on this one, idk.
- KajMagnus 8y agoI have a small and independent blog, and zero blog comments spam — I think it's related to requiring manual approval of each new persons first few posts. (The comments software is open source, link in my profile)
- owl57 8y agoIs it more difficult in the English-speaking part of the Internet? My captcha for small sites entirely consists of a decoy <input type=submit style="display:none"> for, like, last ten years.
- rvp-x 8y agoI have a simple "what is two times three" randomly-generated text question and it's very successful in warding off spam. Someone could trivially automate answering it but it doesn't seem like it's worth the trouble to spammers.
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- rickycook 8y agosure but it’s unlikely his site is going to be the target of anyone willing to spend the time to even tell the bot where the text to recognise is. it stops bulk; not target... but he’s unlikely to be a target so it serves its purpose
- Pristina 8y agoare blind people the vegans of accessibility?
- comboy 8y agoHe even dared including some pictures in the article, ridiculous.