On Wednesday 02 November 2005 13:38, David Gerard wrote:
With various discussions around Wikipedia of captchas to impede vandalbots, I was wondering how usable audio captchas actually are for those who can't see images. Most sites with visual captchas offer an audio option ... but what's the actual usability of these? Are they a minor impediment, as a visual captcha is, or a major usability problem? Is there data on this?
How actually needed are audio captchas? Regardless of usability, you may have deaf users with Lynx, or non-impaired users with Lynx and no sound, so there has to be e-mail fallback. If there has to be e-mail fallback, it could be used by blind users as well, as they are relatively small percentage.