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From: Egan, Bim
Date: Jul 25, 2008 4:40AM

Hi Alan,

Like Aaron, I haven't come across any multi-lingual CAPTCHA audio.
I'd also like to second Aaron's call to avoid CAPTCHA wherever possible.
Server solutions need to be found if the web is ever to become broadly
accessible.

Imagine the isolation of someone who is deaf-blind ... And how
frustrated they will be to find that they need either sight or hearing
to be classed as human. Text or exception CAPTCHA should really be the
alternative if an image challenge is used. The first asks simple
questions and the second requires that a field is left blank. Neither
is foolproof, but then the same can be said of image CAPTCHA now.

Cheers,

Bim