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Re: reCAPTCHA replacement

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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: Dec 4, 2014 8:17AM

Birkir wrote:

> I used IE and immediately got redirected to an additional challenge
> (it looks like the CAPTCHA equates using IE with being a robot


I could well be that my test case is encouraging the heuristics to fail, on
my first tries I couldn't trigger a fail.

Trying with IE, ah-ha, there it is!

The alternative is under the form after "refresh", it has a title of "Get
audio challenge", on a div with role button and tabindex of 0. It should
work I think, although I'm not keen on relying on title attributes.

For the image matching, I wonder if the audio alternative could be a
> soundfile, such as an animal sound, that user can then match to images
> with descriptive alt texts.
>

I'm not sure what they are doing for that, I guess I'll have to buy a
Windows phone so I can use IE on mobile and trigger a fail?!

-Alastair