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Re: Accessible captchas?

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From: Dean Hamack
Date: Dec 3, 2008 1:35PM

Good tips. Thanks Jared.


On 12/3/08 12:14 PM, "Jared Smith" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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