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Accessibility

At Blogsome they are deaf, not blind

4 May 2007 World

Three weeks ago, we wrote about Captchas, those barriers to site accessibility, preventing blind or visually impaired users from accessing a protected resource. But not only. These captchas also create barriers for the much larger number of people with learning disabilities involving text recognition (the visual perceptual problems often casually referred to as “dyslexia“). A [...]

Fight spam, stop captchas! [Weekend Open Trackback]

13 April 2007 World

Captcha is the acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”, a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human. A common type of captchas requires that the user type the letters of a distorted image, sometimes with the addition of an [...]