[ossrp-control] Re: Making Web Based Word Verification Tests Accessible

Hi Will,
Yes it is particularly irritating to be stopped by these things.   They
verge on discrimination against the vision impaired.

The only problem I can see is a kind of arms race being set up.   If the
osat screen reader is open source then sooner or later some superspammer may
decide its worth teh trouble to incorporate the work into automated systems.
Of course On the same grounds I suppose if I'm right about that its only a
matter of time before they develop a system for us to get past these
things!!

perhaps we should go for an ageist protection system, like "Who was muffin
the Mule"!


God bless the work

Ed
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  Hi,

  I think it may be possible to make those web based word verification tests
that entities such as Google, Yahoo, etc. are using, accessible.  It's a
matter of creating AI to group things together, based on Gestalt perceptual
laws, then pattern matching the resultant shape against a description of the
letters and numbers.

  If I get this to the point where I think it's an achievable goal, would
people be interested in seeing this as a feature?

  Will

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