Wiki Accessibility
I have noticed that when signing up for the wiki sites you use the cat images captcha. I'm not blind myself, and i don't know much about how blind people use a computer, but I do wonder how a blind person would manage to solve this. Perhaps there is a way, but I thought I'd mention this in case it has been overlooked. I have seen other alternatives where it is possible to play back the captcha as audio, but I assume that won't work with cat images. Regards, Robin
Re: Wiki Accessibility
On Feb 14, 2013 2:33 PM, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.com wrote: I have noticed that when signing up for the wiki sites you use the cat images captcha. I'm not blind myself, and i don't know much about how blind people use a computer, but I do wonder how a blind person would manage to solve this. Perhaps there is a way, but I thought I'd mention this in case it has been overlooked. I have seen other alternatives where it is possible to play back the captcha as audio, but I assume that won't work with cat images. Hi you are quite right, our create account is not friendly towards blind people, having said that we need something like that in order to fight spam, and anybody who has a problem creating an account can mail this help and will get help. You might also have noticed that neither our wiki nor our www is especially friendly for blind people. A lot of pages uses pictures, and our menu tree is rather dynamic (makring it harder to remember). We are currently discussing updating/renewing both content and look/feel of the wikie, where I will keep your posting in memory. have a nice day Jan I Regards, Robin
Re: Wiki Accessibility
On 14 February 2013 16:05, janI j...@apache.org wrote: Hi you are quite right, our create account is not friendly towards blind people, having said that we need something like that in order to fight spam, and anybody who has a problem creating an account can mail this help and will get help. rationalwiki.org, which I'm a volunteer sysadmin on, uses MediaWiki with QuestyCaptcha with some success: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha It asks a question in text form. This utterly confuses the spambots in our experience. Downside: it's really annoying to configure. - d.
Re: Wiki Accessibility
On Feb 14, 2013 5:13 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 February 2013 16:05, janI j...@apache.org wrote: Hi you are quite right, our create account is not friendly towards blind people, having said that we need something like that in order to fight spam, and anybody who has a problem creating an account can mail this help and will get help. rationalwiki.org, which I'm a volunteer sysadmin on, uses MediaWiki with QuestyCaptcha with some success: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha It asks a question in text form. This utterly confuses the spambots in our experience. Downside: it's really annoying to configure. I looked at that, but you really need somebody to maintain the questions (at least as I saw it), and that is a resource which we dont have today. There are many different captcha's available, and we tried some different ones. At least to me (as a maintainer) it is important to use one that does not require running maintenance, or takes a long time to configure. I do the maintenance of the mwiki (at OS level, others do a great job at sysop level), and cannot devote my full time to it. rgds Jan I. - d.
