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Re: alternate captcha ideas?

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From: Birkir Gunnarsson
Date: Nov 21, 2009 6:05PM

I appologize if this is mentioned in one of the links presented in a
response to this post. I assume so but don't hve time to check those links
till later.
But one solution that is very comfortable, to me as a user, is to pose a
verbal problem the user has to respond to such as "what do you get if you
add five to three", of course I realize this is firstly reliant on the fact
the user speaks English (but if this is on an English language web site that
should be fine, if not the question could be stated in the relevant
language) and secondly one could write code to circumvent this to some
degree by figuring out all possible word and number combinations, however
one could also write ocr software to figure out texts in a picture or sound
file, so I think this strike a good balance, at least for a web site whre
security is not absolutely vital and does not keep highly personal or
financial information about the user.
I know there is a company that provides these solutions directly, or
relevant software, and I can track it down if desired.
Again, apologies if this has already been mentioned.
-B

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Being that the issue is still far from successfully resolved it is far from
an old topic.
Chuck
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> Sweet! Looks like I have some reading to do. I'm just getting to know all
> the goodness that resides on your site, so sorry for bringing up an old
> topic.
>
> Carin
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> Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] alternate captcha ideas?
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>
> Hi Carin
>
> All CAPTCHA solutions have problems regarding accessibility and this has
> been discussed on various threads of this forum:
>
> http://www.webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread.php?thread=3945
> http://www.webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread.php?thread=3061 (and probably
> more)
>
> and there are good solutions on the main site:
>
> http://webaim.org/blog/spam_free_accessible_forms/
>
> ...this spells out real alternatives to CAPTCHA - ones that meet both
> usability and accessibility requirements, not to mention business
> requirements of security and a low form-abandonment rate.
>
> CAPTCHA does have it's place, but there are much better solutions that
> don't
> put any burden on the user whilst maintaining security.
>
>