I'm looking forward to a Safari extension that will solve these capchas. I don't currently have enough knowledge of the situation to know how to do it myself, but appreciate any effort anyone can offer. Perhaps I may learn to provide accessibility solutions one day myself. We shall see. :)
Teresa On Sep 12, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > It all comes down to the purpose of captcha. It is a cognitive test by > supplying a puzzle that would be difficult for a computer to solve to try and > prove you're not a bot. Today there are very few of those kinds of puzzles. > Image and audio recognition are about the only two that haven't been cracked > and it's turned into an arms race. Eventually the algorithms will be > sophisticated enough that they will either mimic human behavior undetectably > or the cognitive load to solve the captchas will increase to the point where > real people can't solve them (already happening). Either scenario ends badly > for those trying to protect the integrity of their content sites. In the > meantime, just saying the current stuff doesn't work doesn't help because > nobody has come up with a better solution. Anything that lowers the puzzle > difficulty also makes it easier for the algorithms to solve. > > Some previous discussions on this list: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@macvisionaries.com/msg43663.html > > CB > > On 9/12/11 4:04 AM, Adie wrote: >> >> Guys, >> >> I am fed up of audio captcha. My Member of Parliament currently has a >> question in to the UK Prime Minister about use of audio capcha on >> government websites. I know it's a drag, but we need to challenge >> these things every time we come across them. I was on a site the other >> day which had a simple equation instead of an audio captcha. It was a >> joy. >> >> BTW, I love the bit where it says the audio captcha is to test whether >> or not you are a human being. I always write to them saying that, >> despite the fact that I can't see, I am nevertheless a human. >> >> Cheers >> >> Adrienne >> On Sep 11, 9:05 pm, Eric Oyen<eric.o...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I find that rather interesting. now why would the general public (and >>> business professionals) get the impression that mozilla was the most >>> accessible web browser for any OS? sure it works well with windoweeyes and >>> jaws in the windows platform. it also works mostly with orca in linux. it >>> does not work at all in OS X with voiceover (and I have even tried growl >>> with it and still had a lot of issues). >>> >>> I have sent more than a few emails over the last few years and all I get >>> back is nothing but a load of crapola and finger pointing. now I know we >>> can't prevail upon a bunch of volunteer code monkeys and still have them do >>> the work. if they were paid and we wrote the checks, that would certainly >>> be a different case. >>> >>> -Eric >>> On Sep 11, 2011, at 12:43 AM, Rachel magario wrote:> the sad part is that >>> loads of programers think firefox is the most accessible browser out there. >>> They get shocked to find it does not work on the mac. I recall a programer >>> at my work insisted that I should use mozilla. Only after he tried using it >>> with vo by him self, was when the message got across! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
