There is a Firefox extension to get past the captchas...
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Graham Pearce grahamwp@jazi.net 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 jayvdb@gmail.com
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=3201...
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 chrisgrantmail@gmail.com 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 wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Bawolff Bawolff bawolff@gmail.com 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 bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
On 2013-01-22 3:30 PM, "aude" aude.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Luke Welling WMF <
lwelling@wikimedia.org
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)
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