There is a Firefox extension to get past the captchas...
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From: Graham Pearce <grahamwp(a)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(a)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:
I offered to help people use WebVisum, a Firefox extension to get past
the captchas:
It's an invite-only system. Nobody took up my offer, but I notice now
that there's a page to request invitations:
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?
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From: Chris Grant <chrisgrantmail(a)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(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Bawolff Bawolff <bawolff(a)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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2013-01-22 3:30 PM, "aude" <aude.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Luke Welling WMF <
>
> lwelling(a)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)
>
> -bawolff
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