Hi,
I thought I should acknowledge that this is a problem not just with people
with poor eye sight but also when using a low resolutulion screen.
In most of the outreach sessions done in non-metros in India, I have come
across people (the ones with good eye sight) face this problem more, as the
monitors they use are not great. It would be helpful if good alternatives
could be worked upon.
Best,
Vishnu
On Wednesday, 27 August 2014, Bohdan Melnychuk <base-w(a)yandex.ru> wrote:
Hola la todos.
I'm being curios how the blind or just people with quite poor eyesight
are
supposed to join Wiki(m|p)edia.
Fortunately though my own eyesight isn't what you call perfect, low
myopia
gives me no obstacles to use computer without spectacles. But
unfortunately not every human being can boast not having such problems.
And I'm sure some of them could be potential wikimedians.
But when I e.g. want to proceed with registration I've got to fill a
field with
what CAPTCHA says (and except for registration there are also
other cases when it's shown for nonautoconfirmed guys). But assume you
don't see it well — how on Earth are you to pass it then? It's not uncommon
to see audio version on many sites. But we have it not.
On Wikidata there is a link to
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Captcha which
actually acknowledges
the problem, there is similar page on Meta, I believe there are some more
like this but the solution to contact siteadmins doesn't seem too good for
me - user at least needs to reveal his email publicly or contact a sysop
using some external to wikipages way. Not all people'd like to do it.
Enwiki provides with a link to a tool
https://accounts.wmflabs.org/ but
still you need to give your email to somebody.
But on the other hand even such a solution is better than nothing. But
it's
local ones in perhaps dozen or two wikis while there are over 700 of
them.
So what's the current status of dealing with the problem? Is someone
working on
audio CAPTCHAs? Or perhaps there are some ideas how to make
other passages for such cases?
Spambots do exist anyway but it's sad if some potential users are being
stopped
from joining us this way.
Yours,
Base
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