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Re: Plug and play alternatives to captcha

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From: Christophe Strobbe
Date: Apr 17, 2008 9:30AM

At 16:54 17/04/2008, you wrote:
>Moore, Michael wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Captcha is raising its ugly head here again so I am searching for a plug
> > and play alternative to the usual inaccessible distorted letters that
> > are available in most modules. I have code examples of alternative ways
> > of accomplishing this but my customers are looking for an off the shelf
> > solution that they can just add to the form mail.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike
>
>Have you looked at reCAPTCHA?
>http://recaptcha.net/

Last year, there was a long discussion thread on reCAPTCHA's
accessibility issues on the WAI XTech mailing list (last message:
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2007Aug/0106.html>;)
but I had the impression that it petered out without coming to a real
conclusion. There were keyboard accessibility issues; the example at
<http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html>; still uses document.write to
insert an iframe element that contains the CAPTCHA. (This script
appears just above another iframe element with the same CAPTCHA.)
I haven't seen any mails, blog posts or articles stating that the
issues have been solved and I have't retested it myself.
reCAPTCHA also has a WordPress plug-in:
<http://recaptcha.net/plugins/wordpress/>;.

Best regards,

Christophe


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