Markus ha scritto: > On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 08:54, trans. (T. Onoma) wrote: > >>On Monday 25 October 2004 11:35 am, Jamis Buck wrote: >>| >>| ASCII art will still suffer from accessibility issues, since a screen >>| reader will not be able to read the ASCII art in any intelligible way to >>| the user. :( However, it is an ingenious approach...I'm tempted to look >>| into that, JFTHOI. >> >>There is no way to do otherwise for a captcha system. How would a blind person >>every be able to use a captcha system? > > > Think creatively. You could fairly easily come up with a text > based captcha system that was screen reader friendly and had no external > dependencies. For example test riddles / story problems that would be > dirt simple for a human but next to impossible for a program "in the > general case" could be rather easily generated in pure ruby. > > For example: > > Three things that go "quack" landed in a circular pond > that was 10 meters across. They found fourteen early shoes > and each of them ate as many as he wanted. How many shoes > were left? imho they could be even simpler, just have an array of question/answer things like "enter 2 plus 2" "4" "the color of a white horse" "white" "4 letters, Read The Fricking Manual" "RTFM" "the thing after 1 and 2 " "3" no standard way for a bot to guess, and totally dumb for a user > I don't think so. It's like the story of the two campers who see a > bear*; we don't need to be impenetrable, just more trouble than it's > worth, so they'll go elsewhere. > > -- Markus > > * One of the campers takes off running, and the other quickly follows. > So does the bear. The second camper calls out "I don't think this was > such a good idea; we'll never outrun that bear." To which, the first > responds, "I don't need to outrun the bear, I just need to outrun you." > I recall a t-shirt over thinkgeek that was "if you're with an halfing and a dragon, remember, you don't have to outrun the dragon, you have to outrun the halfling" :)