From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-10-26T00:54:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Garden Spam

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:25:28 +0900, Joey Gibson <joey@joeygibson.com> wrote:
> Austin Ziegler wrote:
> > What did you use to do that captcha? That captcha I might actually
> >support using; I just don't want to do an image-based captcha because
> >of accessibility issues.
> Someone in the Blosxom community added CAPTCHA support to Blosxom using
> figlet, which is a unix program to draw letters in ascii art. It worked
> pretty well. You might could adapt the Perl code that does it to your
> needs. The URL is http://varg.dyndns.org/psi/pub/code/misc/wbcaptcha.html

Mmm. Neat idea, but problems:

1) Requires figlet. This kills it, because Ruwiki must be able to run
without any problem without requiring something like figlet. However,
when I get a captcha-preauth setup finalised in Ruwiki, I will make it
so that people who want that can implement it themselves.

2) Requires fixed font display. This also means that screenreaders
can't see it reliably, either. I'd prefer something purely text-based,
which is why I asked Jamis what he was doing for that.

-austin
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