Travis. Again, apologies for the delay. I agree with you
100%. Apple, Microsoft and a growing number of groups are now
turning to these silly systems. All they do is make things
inaccessible. Sky Television over here, on their accessibility web
site believe it or not, use this system. When I pointed out the very
obvious to them, the lady on the other end of the phone just gagged
and said this was clearly a problem which they would have to look
into. But how embarrassing for them ... what a design stuff-up!
At 12:46 26/07/2006 -0400, Travis Siegel said:
It is not possible to read these silly security code things, because
they're graphical, ad there's not a screen reader on the market that
can read these, whether mac or windows. Without some ocr type thing,
it's not possible, and even then, there's no guarantee it would work.
Personally, I find these type in the code things extremely silly,
completely unnecessary, and generally a waste of time.
It's simple enough to send email that requires a reply or a click on
a link, or here's a password you need to log in. I don't think it's
necessary *ever* to have such a system. Brainbench has recently gone
to this kind of thing. If you want to take a test, you have to enter
a security code on an image. Now, what's the point of that? It's a
damned test, questions are randomly generated, answers are selected
from a list of options. How the hell can somebody script something
like that? Why the hell do we have to enter some stupid security code
to get into a test when we're already logged into our account before
clicking on the test in the first place. I've asked this question
several times, and never received an answer. The only reply I get is
a response saying not everybody is as honest as me.
What does that mean, and why does it matter? Even if someone else
isn't as honest, so what, what does that have with entering a
security code to be allowed to take a test? It does absolutely
nothing to prevent cheating on the test (if it's possible to cheat,
since you're allowed to use reference materials) Does anyone here
have even a remotely reasonable answer for thhis question? I sure
can't come up with one, maybe someone else can.
So, there's my rant on security codes on web pages. I'm personally
of the opinion that they do nothing but waste time, and make it
harder for real people to do things, and absolutely nothing to
prevent the kinds of things they're claiming they're protecting against.
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