From: Belorion <belorion@...>
Date: 2004-11-11T06:14:26+09:00
Subject: Re: new spam at the wiki

Someone who simply has really poor eyesight can configure their
browsers for large font.  They would be able to read the wiki, but not
contribute to it because the strangely formed text within an image may
not be readable to them.  These people are certainly capable of
contributing to the wiki.

And people who are blind have the text-to-speech option.  Whether or
not they are able to contribute, I'm not sure, but it seems silly to
punish someone with a visual disability for spammer bad behaviour.

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:04:31 +0900, Nikolai Weibull
<mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> wrote:
> * Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com> [Nov 10, 2004 21:20]:
> > CAPTCHA systems are a roadblock to blind and visually impaired users.
> 
> What possibilities do they have in altering the contents of the pages?
> I'm not being sarcastic, I'd actually like to know if there are any.
>         nikolai
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