Comments on: Could Kittens be the Future of CAPTCHA? http://www.beaconfire.com/blog/2007/08/07/could-kittens-be-the-future-of-captcha/ Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:08:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tim http://www.beaconfire.com/blog/2007/08/07/could-kittens-be-the-future-of-captcha/comment-page-1/#comment-11125 Tim Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:03:29 +0000 http://www.beaconfire.com/blog/2007/08/07/could-kittens-be-the-future-of-captcha/#comment-11125 One concern I've always had with CAPTCHAs is their accessibility: Blind users are totally left out, and the workarounds that some sites have tried using have not done well. Yahoo has, as an alternative, the ability to directly contact -- via email -- someone at Yahoo who will validate that the sender is indeed a person. People have reported, however, that they have waited days for a response. There is currently a <a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/yabvipma/" rel="nofollow">Yahoo Accessibility Improvement Petition</a> that you can add your name to. I'm also interested in learning more about <a href="http://system-x.info/?pageid=18&menutree=47" rel="nofollow">textTHaCAA (Text (Telling Humans and Computers Apart Automatically))</a> which uses a multiple choice question to verify the "humanity" of a user. It's a work in progress, but certainly shows promise. One concern I’ve always had with CAPTCHAs is their accessibility: Blind users are totally left out, and the workarounds that some sites have tried using have not done well. Yahoo has, as an alternative, the ability to directly contact — via email — someone at Yahoo who will validate that the sender is indeed a person. People have reported, however, that they have waited days for a response. There is currently a Yahoo Accessibility Improvement Petition that you can add your name to.

I’m also interested in learning more about textTHaCAA (Text (Telling Humans and Computers Apart Automatically)) which uses a multiple choice question to verify the “humanity” of a user. It’s a work in progress, but certainly shows promise.

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