Category: The Rave Board
Guys! Check this out! It's so cool! Anyone who knows me knows very well how I'm always going on about inaccessible captia. Well, today, I found just the opposite! Go here.
http://www.cyberfriends.com/freecyberfriendsmembership.html
You don't have to type anything in. Just go to where it says varification code and it'll read you the code. I don't mean that there's an audio file of it. I mean that the code itself is screenreader accessible! It's right below the input field (or to the right of it on a Mac). I'm still waiting on a friend of mine to see whether or not it's accessible with braille displays, thereby making it good for the deafblind, but I've tried it with JFW and NVDA and I know that with those screenreaders it works. I haven't yet tried it with Hal. I have no others for Windows, but it also works on VoiceOver for Mac. OH, and one more thing. You can take forever to put it in and it won't change on you or make the page expire so that you have to start over. I really think we should write to these people. Do any of you know of similar sites? that is, sites with similar accessible codes?
Hey, from the way the page is setup I think I have access to the info on how such captia works. I like this kind of setup myself, and is exactly what I plan on using on my own site.
I heard from another person that a robot could easily get into this because it's inbedded in the page. Does anyone know if this is true? I sure hope not, cause it's a wonderful system.
lol captia? interesting spelling there. I think, rather than writing to those people, we should write to others that are never willing to leave the captcha (c.a.p.t.c.h.a) system to change their implementation and give this site as an example.
Yes, autimated systems can abbuse this form of captcha since OCR engines can recognize it just as easy as your screen reader. They even have advanced systems that will recognize clear audio readings of the verification codes, so I'm afraid this won't take off. Thank you once again virus writers and hackers for putting up yet another barrior in terms of accessibility!
i know a website but it's in italian, they have something like this as a verification code. random numbers like this
4 and 8 and 3
and you have to type the result in the box. i think that's a good idea too.
hey.......that's gotta rule!. i'm going to go to the website now, and sign up!. don't care what it's about, but seriously?. that's gotta rock!. codes always put me ioff getting registered
a bot could cause more damage but who cares.
Umm, this is like locking a door and leaving your key in the keyhole.
I'm not being negative, I'm simply pointing facts from a technical perspective.
Bots browse through thousands of pages a day seeking email addresses, signing up for things, etc.
The site should have made it so that there is a random number of spaces between the numbers, or even dashes.
Instead of
15237974
It could look something like:
1 5..... 2 !!!! 3 7 ^^ 9==== 7 ----- 4
As long as you just type the numbers, it should fix the bots for a minute. I say a minute cause then bot writers can filter white space/punctuations.
Bleh, I guess the only way so far I've seen that bots have trouble getting around is an audio file, with garble in the background, and the code spoken just clear enough for the ear to pick up.