In addition to AA, I also run the AA wiki and forums, and I've completely given up on capchas. They're really just ineffective, and even really hard ones still let through more spam accounts than I prefer.
We use something a lot stronger. For forum registration, we currently only require a valid player name from Alter Aeon. This makes sense, as really only AA players should be using it. Simply requiring a valid player name, with no capitals, cuts out more spam than any capcha I've ever seen. That said, we still get maybe half a dozen spam registrations per year, when they happen to pick a valid player name out of the blue. For the wiki, we require both a valid player name and the email associated with that player account. For something so simple, it's vastly more effective: the only spam account we've ever seen on the wiki was caused by a bug in the email check. Unfortunately, this really doesn't help other services. AA effectively provides a 'whitelist' of allowed accounts, based on who has created a character - no spammer is going to bother creating an AA account just so they can spam the wiki (at least not yet.) But forums don't really have any way to do that, because you can't verify where new users came from. Facebook and other big sites have tried to set up authentication and login services for other people to use for this purpose, but unless everyone uses the same one, you're still missing out on people. In the future, I'll probably still use the same model, just because I can. I'll have easy, capcha free registration in a place that spammers simply won't bother to hit, then use that registration to allow access to other services. I don't know how that model could be effective for other blind services, but perhaps it's worth thinking about. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Charles Rivard <[email protected]> wrote: > I've challenged such claims. If the builder says that it is accessible, > show me by using it as if you needed to have that accessibility. The > management staff where I worked insisted that their software was accessible > to people using screen readers. They wanted the blind people to speed up > their voice rates to gather the info more quickly. So a tech put JAWS at > the highest speech rate, turned off the monitor, and played a credit card > number. He then asked managers to repeat what they heard. Not even the > blind screen reader users could do it. Repeating it several times only > wasted time. The speed was then brought down to a reasonable level, and we > could hear and get it the first time it was announced. Managers still > insisted that we crank JAWS up to increase productivity. This is corporate > logic, which is an oxymoron. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
