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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Tino Wildenhain <[email protected]>
Cc: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <[email protected]>
Cc: Travis Hein <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: human validation on post comments
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:43:09 -0000
Message-ID: <E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E4011C9623@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk> (raw)

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tino Wildenhain [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 21 March 2006 08:26
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: David Fetter; PostgreSQL WWW
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] human validation on post comments
> 
> Dave Page schrieb:
> >  
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: [email protected] 
> >>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Fetter
> ...
> >>The sad part of this one is that they don't have to crack any single
> >>capcha system.  Instead, they've cracked the entire capcha process.
> > 
> > 
> > Grrr, where's my baseball bat?
> > 
> > Actually though that shouldn't be too much of a problem as 
> long as the
> > images timeout after a few minutes- and we still have all the normal
> > moderation in place.
> > 
> I should point out, the whole captcha thing isnt WAI compliant:
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/
> 
> so better not follow that path if we dont want to shy away
> diabled people...

Hmm, that's a good point (one I should have thought of considering the
BSI's new guidance notes on building accessible websites just landed on
my desk!).

I think we would be covered if we offered an audio equivalent as well
though wouldn't we? Perhaps there is some text-to-speech code that we
can use from within PHP?

Regards, Dave.

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