Re: accessible open source captcha solutions?
- From: "Chris" <christopherhallsworth71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:53:33 +0100
Hi all, does anyone know what Google uses for their audio capture generators?
If that's Open Source, then Google could receive permission off Wikipedia
and maybe come up with a captcha solution similar to Google's. Thanks for
any thoughts regarding this.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Samuel Proulx" <samuel.proulx@xxxxxxxxx>
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:30:20 -0400
Subject: accessible open source captcha solutions?
> Hi, all:
>
> I've been in contact with the wikipedia developers about making the captcha
> required to sign up with wikipedia made accessible. The reason it hasn't
> happened yet, although they've known about the problem for over a year,
> seems to be the lack of GPL licensed audio captcha solutions in PHP. Does
> anyone on this list know of, or is anyone working on or willing to work on,
> an open source captcha solution? I'm aware some open source text captcha
> solutions are available; does anyone have experience with them (how easy are
> they to use, how easy to crack, etc)? If we could point at an open source
> captcha library, I think we as a blind community would have much better
> success at getting website owners, and website projects (like PHPBB and
> others) to fix captchas. Wikipedia is one of the largest, if not the
> largest, website on the internet. I think it's important that we push for a
> solution to the wikipedia captcha. Unfortunately, this solution cannot
> happen without an open source captcha library they can use. Thus the reason
> for my inquiring into the status of these things. Any information list
> members have will be of help in moving towards a constructive solution to
> this issue.
>
> Thanks,
> Samuel Proulx
>
>
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