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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Nov 7, 2014 4:40AM

Mallory,

That is a good point which leads to another question.

How do we draw the interest of people, who may have the skills we might not possess or the time to investigate solutions for such questions, so we can work collaboratively together to come up with new accessibility solutions?

It is great when there is a person with the interest, knowledge, and skill to solve a problem, but often interest, knowledge, and skill aren't possessed by the same person and then how do you build a team of people who combine to have all those things?


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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Mallory van Achterberg
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2014 2:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] CAPTCHA

On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 10:19:39PM +0000, Stefan Sollinger wrote:
>
> And finally, this is a joke website making fun of CAPTCHAs:
> http://crapcha.com/
>

A guy wanted to make a CAPTCHA that was "fun" and hoped inborn
knowledge of human hands would be a solution. He posted it to
Sitepoint Forums: http://community.sitepoint.com/t/hand-gesture-captcha/42570

I think he was going for the cognitive aspect of it, but every
response there has as much if not more trouble than traditional
CAPTCHAs.

I suspect there are a lot of smart people still spending time
trying to make these bear-proof tests (or, how about pill
bottles that arthritic people have to ask their toddlers to open
for them), and I think that's a shame. I'd love it if these
smart people were driven to think *outside* CAPTCHA, to the
real problem underneath.

_mallory