Captcha's are SOOO passe! Toss out the Captcha and make use of CFFormProtect, available from RIAForge.com ;-) No extra user input, coupled to Akismet and Project Honeypot, and all CFC ;-)
Sebastiaan ================================= So long and thanx 4 all the fish ==> Onlinebase.nl > Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 14:51:58 -0700 > Subject: Re: ADA Captcha > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > Dave Watts wrote: > > While I do think you're right about reCAPTCHA being ADA-compliant, I > > would still recommend avoiding the use of CAPTCHAs at all. "ADA > > compliant" doesn't necessarily equate with "easy to use". > > While I don't disagree that there are costs and cons to weigh when using > a captcha. I find the Carnegie-Mellon one to be less annoying then > most. They don't do *really* funky things with the words like toss the > letters like salad or use horrid backgrounds. They actually use the > creative idea of taking a fairly human readable word that has already > failed computer recognition when it was scanned and OCR'ed from a > digitalization project, currently the NY Times. And combines this with > a word that has already been solved by humans. > > Thus you get a pair of fairly straight forward words that have always > been simple for me to understand at least. That has not always been > true with other, more homegrown captcha systems. Plus you get the > community benefit of helping digitalize pre-computer printed works. I > feel that offsets quite a bit of the cons of captcha's in general. As > well as that Carnegie-Mellon has also included the ADA compliance portion. > > But, as always, your (general) millage may vary and only you (general) > can make the decision on what is best for your (general) given project > of the day. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:325203 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
