[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Adding comments to issues
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:09:12 -0500
Well, captchas are the greater evil. They are an obstacle to
accessibility. Some form of registration is certainly necessary,
however.
John
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 01:59:49PM +0200, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi all
>
> On 10/15/2013 06:14 PM, Michael Whapples wrote:
> >it is totally unacceptable for this project as captcha's are accessibility
> >problems (difficult enough for me with just sight problems, but the
> >audio alternative is next to useless to someone with good hearing so I
> >would guess is totally useless for someone in John Boyer's situation
> >with hearing issues as well).
>
> Captchas are a way to avoid spam. If you have a web form that accepts
> bug reports without any registration or captcha you are inviting spam.
> The Debian project bug tracker allows for bug submission without
> registration and also via email. AFAIK it contains quite a bit of spam
> which has to be cleaned out manually.
>
> We just have to decide which one is the lesser evil: spam or captcha.
>
> Thanks
> Christian
>
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