That's the whole point, to prevent alternative methods. What do you want to replace the elevator, a wav file spelling the letters? Do you think many projects that use this, budget for that? If that's part of the spec, fine, there is an exception to my statement, but I've seen a lot of these damn things, and I've NEVER seen one with an elevator.
| [reply] |
LiveJournal has one (scroll to the bottom of the page). It's open source.
(The implication being, of course, not that it is "free" to implement audio captcha, but that it is not impossible; that a site with millions of users has chosen to do so; and that they share the way they did it with other potential programmers.)
| [reply] |
Having just listened to it, it's as distorted as the text is. I can't understand it myself, and the doctor said I have "normal" hearing. Nope, I don't think that passes muster at all. Lots of people will still be excluded. What about a blind deaf person using a braille browser? Such people do actually exist. Maybe it's fine with you if your sites don't work for them, but I think it's morally vacant, considering that the REST of the technology all works fine with it. I'm not talking about flying an airplane, I'm talking about viewing a web page!
| [reply] |