[Foundation-l] Visual impairment

[Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva]

2010/5/15 Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:27 PM, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Solving captcha during registration is mandatory. Can this be replaced with
>> a sound captcha for visual impairment people?
>
> 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.

there is a google-owned public captcha service called recaptcha, that
serves for useful purpose (digitalizing books) and is accessible to
visually impaired people.

http://recaptcha.net/

i think the best effect of recaptcha is psychological, since this
meaningless task may be perceived as "useful" for some noble task. and
it's good that we manage to be able to fool ourselves that way,
captchas are so annoying..

[ but yeah, not open source, also not everyone trusts google ]

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Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva <tolkiendili at gmail.com>