SPAM on PLUGSITE

[Steven]

Late reply, but I have to agree here. The biggest 'support' issue I help 
my sister with is gaining access to things protected with a CAPTCHA 
scheme. Which sucks, because I hate spam and flawed as CAPTCHA systems 
can be they do seem to be on of the few things to help reduce spam.

Especially annoying are the ones that are supposed to have an audio 
version available since those never seem to work on her computer. This 
is also one of the reasons why I don't like Yahoo, as both of us tried 
to email them about problems with the supposed accessibility alternative 
options on their CAPTCHA system a few years ago and we never, never 
received a replay from any address we tried other than automated form 
responses that weren't even close to dealing with the issue.

I've also come to not much care for the company that makes JAWS but 
being a Windows program that's not quite on topic here.

On 12/15/2010 02:46 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:48:03PM -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote:
>> We simply cannot allow these bots to spam the site; PLUG is an older Drupal
>> that doesn't include the "human verification" tests.
> These human verification tests you refer to, often include CAPTCHA.
> As far as I'm concerned, most CAPTCHA schemes are evil and I say that
> because blind people who use audio or Braille screen readers can never
> parse the information displayed in the little pretty pictures they
> show.  Some audio CAPTCHA drills make for an alternative but then deaf
> blind users are still excluded.  I don't know aht all human type tests
> are available in Drupal but I would be most interested in evaluating
> any of these if PLUG should move to such Drupal versions and wish to
> implement any of these.
>
> Sorry for any whining but just looking out for my rights to equal
> access.<smile>
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