Re: human validation on post comments

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tino Wildenhain [mailto:tino@wildenhain.de]
> Sent: 21 March 2006 08:26
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: David Fetter; PostgreSQL WWW
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] human validation on post comments
>
> Dave Page schrieb:
> >
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org
> >>[mailto:pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of David Fetter
> ...
> >>The sad part of this one is that they don't have to crack any single
> >>capcha system.  Instead, they've cracked the entire capcha process.
> >
> >
> > Grrr, where's my baseball bat?
> >
> > Actually though that shouldn't be too much of a problem as
> long as the
> > images timeout after a few minutes- and we still have all the normal
> > moderation in place.
> >
> I should point out, the whole captcha thing isnt WAI compliant:
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/
>
> so better not follow that path if we dont want to shy away
> diabled people...

Hmm, that's a good point (one I should have thought of considering the
BSI's new guidance notes on building accessible websites just landed on
my desk!).

I think we would be covered if we offered an audio equivalent as well
though wouldn't we? Perhaps there is some text-to-speech code that we
can use from within PHP?

Regards, Dave.