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Re: Plug and play alternatives to captcha

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From: Vicki
Date: Apr 18, 2008 2:50AM

> Have you looked at reCAPTCHA?
> http://recaptcha.net/
>
> Jon


Weighing in a bit late here as I realise the thread has moved on, but
as a deaf person, I get stuck with reCAPTCHA. It is definitely *not*
accessible.

There have been a few times when I have not been able to make out the
letters of a CAPTCHA (and there's nothing wrong with my eyesight) and
in those cases no amount of audio is going to help me. reCAPTCHA or
not, I'm locked out of those sites.

There is also the issue that just as there are a lot of people who
can't quite make out the distorted letters who also can't quite make
out the audio...

Just another point of view.

Vicki. :-)