There is a Firefox extension to get past the captchas... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Graham Pearce <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 5:41 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Why are we still using captchas on WMF sites? To: John Vandenberg <[email protected]>
Yes, I have. There isn't an essay about it as such, but in this edit to the help page about using JAWS: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Using_JAWS&diff=320166666&oldid=320037024 I offered to help people use WebVisum, a Firefox extension to get past the captchas: http://webvisum.com It's an invite-only system. Nobody took up my offer, but I notice now that there's a page to request invitations: http://www.webvisum.com/en/main/invitationrequest So maybe it's not so necessary ... Feel free to pass this reply on to whoever you like. Graham On 23/01/2013 12:07 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > > Have you heard about this? > > is there a wiki essay about this accessibility problem? > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Chris Grant <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:33 PM > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Why are we still using captchas on WMF sites? > To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Bawolff Bawolff <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Someone should write a browser addon to automatically decode and fill in >> captchas for blind users. (Only half joking) > > Don't joke, I have a blind relative who's screen reader does just that > (simple captchas only). > > There are other services like http://www.azavia.com/zcaptcha which is > specifically for the blind, but hell its probably cheaper to use the same > captcha reading services that the spammers do. > > -- Chris > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Bawolff Bawolff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2013-01-22 3:30 PM, "aude" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Luke Welling WMF < >> >> [email protected] >>> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> That was not the end of the problem I was referring to. We know our >>>> specific captcha is broken at turning away machines. As far as I am >> >> aware >>>> >>>> we do not know how many humans are being turned away by the difficulty >> >> of >>>> >>>> it. >>> >>> >>> It's at least impossible for blind users to solve the captcha, without an >>> audio captcha. (unless they manage to find the toolserver account >> >> creation >>> >>> thing and enough motivated to do that) >>> >>> I am not convinced of the benefits of captcha versus other spam filtering >>> techniques. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Katie >>> >>> >>> >> Someone should write a browser addon to automatically decode and fill in >> captchas for blind users. (Only half joking) >> >> -bawolff >> ______________________________**_________________ >>>>> >>>>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l< >>>> >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> @wikimediadc / @wikidata >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
