Mohamed Magdy wrote:
About those :)
Is it possible to have captcha images in another languages? i.e. captcha internationalization.
It's possible, but it would only solve half the problem -- the other half being that captchas fundamentally suck.
There is no way to make a captcha system universally accessible. You think it's hard to make a text captcha accessible to speakers of all languages? Try making an audio alternative for blind people with complete language coverage. But that still leaves the deafblind and people with certain mental handicaps out in the cold.
Eventually computers will surpass humans in their pattern matching and speech recognition abilities, making captchas obsolete. I think we should start developing tools for that day, instead of relying on this moribund technology.
-- Tim Starling