From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-09-21T06:22:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Capcha in ruby

On 9/20/05, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On Sep 20, 2005, at 4:07 PM, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> > Yes, I understand that. However, CAPTCHA is also proving to be
> > relatively ineffective and against accessibility standards. If you
> > have
> > to follow US Federal 508 guidelines, you shouldn't use CAPTCHA. As
> > noted
> > on the various discussions that I linked to, the large sites that
> > spawned CAPTCHA have now abandoned it.
> I have good eye site and they still annoy me.  I can't believe adding
> a user hostile feature is a good idea.  :)

With my glasses or contact lenses, I have *great* vision, and I've got
better colour acuity than most people do (it's how I can still see
meaningful things without my glasses, actually). But you're right -- I
can't see that, either.

-austin
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