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
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@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.
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