I think this is an important question, Caroline. We're using the "honeypot" method on a redesigned site whose primary audience is people with disabilities (including cognitive). We're using ColdFusion for the validation, rather than PHP, for what it's worth. This site previously used only the Hiveware Enkoder to encode e-mail addresses. We'd never had much trouble with spam that way, though we did get some (possibly because some of these addresses had been posted early on without encoding).
It was important to us not to place roadblocks in the way of users, to totally separate content and presentation, to use progressive enhancement, and to do as much of the work as possible on the server side. We want the user experience to be as simple, as seamless and as instantaneous as possible. This is not a high-traffic site, so I can't speak to how well this would work elsewhere ... but two weeks into this, the "honeypot" is working well and I don't know of a better solution. Another advantage for us is that it is remarkably simple, and dismantling it to implement something else will be a piece of cake. I think some who implement Captcha are suffering from delusions of grandeur or unwarranted paranoia. If your audience does (or may) include users who are blind, even with the audio Captcha option, the frustration will drive people away. We should always ask ourselves whether we can really afford to lose that visitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43847 ________________________________________________________________ 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
