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Re: Accessible captchas?

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Dec 3, 2008 1:15PM

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Peter Krantz < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Are you sure you need a captcha? Is it possible to instead use a
> server-side service (like Akismet) to deal with spam?

Of maybe some of the approaches I outlined here -
http://www.webaim.org/blog/spam_free_accessible_forms/

Stopping spam is a pretty marginal reason for burdening all of your
users with a CAPTCHA. Implementing just a few of these techniques will
stop 99%+ of spam without affecting the usability of the page at all.
Those human spammers still get through, but CAPTCHA won't stop them
either.

Jared Smith
WebAIM