[Accessibility] [OSM-talk] You have killed accessibility!

[Jean-Guilhem Cailton]

Le 02/07/2010 03:43, andrzej zaborowski a écrit :
> On 2 July 2010 02:55, Nolan Darilek<nolan at thewordnerd.info>  wrote:
>    
>> There are also CAPTCHA options that don't rely on either sight or
>> hearing. I'm only blind, so the audio CAPTCHA would work for me, but I
>> can't silently sit by when my own disability is accounted for at the
>> expense of another.
>>
>> http://textcaptcha.com
>>
>> That's a much more inclusive CAPTCHA.
>>      
> Yeah, but these rely on good understanding of English, and some of the
> questions seem to be getting more and more complicated.  At some point
> the bot protection is going to be asking humans to interpret a poem or
> something like that :)  And then spam bots will learn to do even this.
>
> My little theory is that this is why the popular CAPTCHAS rely on one
> or more of human senses instead of pure logic.  Computers are good at
> logic, but it takes an awfully complicated neural network to interpret
> a sound or an image.  Humans have a "hardware shortcut" to do that,
> like some highly specialised GPUs and FPGAs.
>
>    

Well, the audio captcha are also in English...
(And, I fear, much more difficult to understand for non native speakers 
(at least for me) than logical questions intended for 7 years old).
Also, it is not obvious to me that computers are good at solving this 
kind of "logic" questions, that apparently require a minimum amount of 
knowledge of the real world or understanding of language.
Finally, I think people with disabilities should be listened to on this 
kind of subject.

So I also vote for textcaptcha.

Best regards,

Jean-Guilhem