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From: Jennison Mark Asuncion
Date: Wed, Jun 18 2008 8:10PM
Subject: study on audio captchas seeking participants
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Hello,

A friend of mine, Jeff Bigham, a Graduate student at the University
of Washington in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering is
conducting research into audio captchas, the goal
being to use the results to inform future development.

Whether you are sighted or have a visual impairment, if you are interested
in taking part in the research, go to
http://webinsight.cs.washington.edu/webeval/captchas/ - the study should
take no more than 15 minutes, and you will need to install the latest
Flash player, if you don't have it on your system

Feel free to pass this along to others who might be interested.

Thanks,
Jennison

From: Randall Pope
Date: Thu, Jun 19 2008 7:40AM
Subject: Re: study on audio captchas seeking participants
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I'm DeafBlind and unfortunately unable to participate in this research
because it's required sound to complete the survey. Sigh.

Randy Pope
American Association of the Deaf-Blind

From: Emma Duke-Williams
Date: Thu, Jun 19 2008 8:50AM
Subject: Re: study on audio captchas seeking participants
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2008/6/19 Randall Pope < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >:
> I'm DeafBlind and unfortunately unable to participate in this research
> because it's required sound to complete the survey. Sigh.
>
> Randy Pope
> American Association of the Deaf-Blind

Are there any captchas that you can use, Randy, other than the sort
that ask you to key in the colour of the sky/ the answer to 6+7 etc.?
As someone with perfectly normal sight & hearing, I find those by far
and a way the easiest to use - there are some (I've an idea that
YouTube is one), that I have to try about 5 times before I manage to
guess right! Given the nature of the questions that they ask, I'd have
thought that most users with a cognitive disability would be able to
answer them, as they're fairly straight forward - I'd have thought
that users with severe / complex learning difficulties would probably
not find the sites usable anyway.


--
Emma Duke-Williams:
School of Computing/ Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator.
Blog: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/

From: Aaron Cannon
Date: Thu, Jun 19 2008 9:00AM
Subject: Re: study on audio captchas seeking participants
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Please do keep us posted on the progress of this study. I look forward to reading the results.

Aaron

>>> Jennison Mark Asuncion < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > 6/18/2008 9:08 PM >>>

Hello,

A friend of mine, Jeff Bigham, a Graduate student at the University
of Washington in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering is
conducting research into audio captchas, the goal
being to use the results to inform future development.

Whether you are sighted or have a visual impairment, if you are interested
in taking part in the research, go to
http://webinsight.cs.washington.edu/webeval/captchas/ - the study should
take no more than 15 minutes, and you will need to install the latest
Flash player, if you don't have it on your system

Feel free to pass this along to others who might be interested.

Thanks,
Jennison

From: Gareth Dart
Date: Thu, Jun 19 2008 9:10AM
Subject: Re: study on audio captchas seeking participants
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Having just participated, I have a new sympathy for those who complain
about audio captchas. Some of those were actually disturbing to listen
to. The ones with a background sussuration are especially paranoia
inducing - I couldn't help but wonder what the hell they were saying and
if it was about me.

G


Gareth Dart
Web Developer
Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
95 Promenade, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 1HZ
T 01242 211128 F 01242 211122 W www.hesa.ac.uk

From: Randall Pope
Date: Thu, Jun 19 2008 9:20AM
Subject: Re: study on audio captchas seeking participants
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Hi Emma,

Thank you for asking. I have to depend on someone to read any captchas for
me. I cannot hear the audio well enough to understand it. That's why I
have always been against using captchas on any website, not to mention some
security issues associate with it.

Randy