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Re: Making A Better CAPTCHA For the Visually Impaired And Making Captions More Available To The Hearing Impaired

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From: Elle
Date: Apr 18, 2013 8:25PM

Dave:

Again, I'm going to refer to another of Karl's posts where he documents
viable alternative solutions:
http://www.karlgroves.com/2012/04/03/captcha-less-security/ I used to work
at a large healthcare company, and we got rid of CAPTCHA on our websites
for three reasons: layered alternatives provided even greater security than
CAPTCHA, alternative non-CAPTCHA solutions were more accessible, and
creating technical solutions to security issues reduced the user's burden
and our abandonment rates.

Hope that helps,
Elle