CAPTCHAs in their normal sense are not typically accessible either, being entirely visual in nature:
http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/ Thanks, Mike ------------------- www.mikepadgett.com > >Harry, I don't have any numbers for you, but I will say that my previous >employer's conversion rates did climb significantly when captchas were >removed. > >I think the idea of captcha is great, but the implementation usually >stinks. Even the ReCaptcha's aren't very good, and those are the best >around, IMO. > >Hard to make a slippery slope when it's covered in trees. > > >Harry wrote: >> Does anyone have any stats on captchas and the impact they have on >> conversion rates? >> >> Marcelo Calbucci of Sampa.com reported that they have a 10% uplift in >> conversion rates by removing captchas ( http://tinyurl.com/bqtdef ). Anyone >> got any more figures like this? >> >> - Harry >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Nikhil Paul <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> Hi Harry, >>> >>> Thanks for clarifying. In that case its a great idea. In my project blog >>> http://www.itsme.it/ well as of now its kinda institutional, but we are >>> trying to upgrade the website into a more interactive one, with a blog >type >>> forum to encourage developer communities and interaction design community >to >>> get together and discuss about interactive systems etc. Lets see how it >>> goes. We plan to get online in the month of march. And i think it will be >>> great to direct posts focusing on UX to the collaborative blog site you >are >>> talking about. >>> >>> Nikhil >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Harry <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Nikhil, >>>> >>>> I agree, the quality of the discussions on the IxDA mailing list are >>>> outstanding. >>>> >>>> Just to clarify, this site would not have any formal affiliation with >>>> IxDA. It will simply be a site somewhere else on the web where people can >>>> add their rss feeds to a 'river of news'. I thought it might be useful to >>>> newcomers to the field, people who aren't big RSS-heads, and so on. >>>> >>>> Harry >>>> >>>> >>>> >> ________________________________________________________________ >> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! >> To post to this list ....... [email protected] >> Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe >> List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines >> List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help >> >> >________________________________________________________________ >Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! >To post to this list ....... [email protected] >Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe >List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines >List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
