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RE: Setting Up Accessible Log-In ForPasswordProtectedAreasOf A Website

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From: Karl Groves
Date: Aug 9, 2006 12:10PM

What, exactly, are you trying to secure?
I recently had a client ask me to implement a CAPTCHA for a form that
neither provided access to secure resources, nor did it send any e-mails or
perform any SQL inserts. In other words, it didn't need such heavy-handed
validation.

I think in a lot of cases, people need to weigh that which is to be
protected against the usability & accessibility problems that the protection
causes. IMO, CAPTCHA is inappropriate on both counts, when so many other
protection methods are available that don't have the same problems


Karl L. Groves
User-Centered Design, Inc.
Office: 703-729-0998
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