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From: zara
Date: Mar 14, 2007 9:40AM

Hi,

I have been away for a while so I do not know if this information has circulated or been discussed on any other accessibility lists (my apologies if that is the case) but since there have been a few messages about CAPTCHAs...

A message concerning Microsoft's experimenting with CAPTCHAs has been posted today on the French list accessibilité-numérique hosted by Braillenet that might interest members of this list.

The original message follows my signature and the source article (both in French) can be found at the following URL :

http://www.01net.com/article/343538.html.

Very briefly, in English :

In light of the increasing capacity of machines to deal with current CAPTCHAs, researchers at Microsoft have imagined a new method of authentification. Rather than asking the user to recognise images of letters and numbers, the system would ask him or her to distinguish photos of cats and dogs. A test version, called Asirra, is available at :

http://research.microsoft.com/asirra/


Best regards,


Catherine


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Catherine Roy

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