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But they stop the average spambot, which is what they're for I think.
The simplest accessible alternative would be email verification, but this 
obviously slows the whole thing down.
Has anyone thought of an accessible alternative that can be embedded on the 
page?

On 9/19/05, Austin Ziegler <halostatue / gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 9/19/05, Federico <pix / yahoo.it> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm creating a public registration process in rails and I would like to
> > add some kind of spam filtering...
> > Anyone knows about a library/implementation/gem of the capcha anti-spam
> > in ruby or better already integrated into rails (validates_capcha)?
> 
> Remember, though, that CAPTCHAs are NOT accessible, and you may need
> to provide an alternate means for verification that is as secure.
> CAPTCHAs are also imperfect and have been shown to be able to be
> broken by computer programs.
> 
> -austin
> --
> Austin Ziegler * halostatue / gmail.com
> * Alternate: austin / halostatue.ca
> 
>

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