[Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Visual impairment

[Ryan Lomonaco]

 Create an account is helpful, but it's a shame we make visually
impaired editors jump through another hoop.  I would be interested in
seeing an audio captcha option.  Does such a thing already exist in
open source form?

[Sorry if this is a top post - on my phone right now]

On 5/15/10, K. Peachey <p858snake at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Aryeh Gregor
> <Simetrical+wikilist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In theory, yes.  Someone needs to provide the code, though.  For now,
>> people who want to sign up and can't solve a captcha can request that
>> an admin make an account for them, like people whose IP addresses are
>> blocked.  I think enwiki has a toolserver project dedicated to that.
>
> The en.wikipedia project for that resides at [[WP:ACC]](1), The
> toolserver system from memory is a request type system (although that
> may of changed since I last looked), where as the actual accounts are
> created on site using the [[Special:CreateAccount]](2) special page,
> there is a limit for that system so that a user may only create so
> many accounts per hour, but we do (or did) have a override for that
>
> (1). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ACC
> (2). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin/signup
>
> -Peachey
>
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