Of course, the irony of this is that, in my experience, both captcha and Googlebooks are inaccessible, but it's still a cool project
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/science/29recaptcha.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

I was attempting to create an account on a science fiction convention Web site and really felt I had hit the jackpot with the following audio captcha ( Read more... )

Click to translate ( Read more... )

The inaccessibility of visual captchas is (along with inaccessible PDF docs and those annoying Web sites that automatically play visual and sound media with no option to make it stop) in my top three most frustrating accessibility issues. Here's an opportunity to add to the weight of research with the goal of increasing awareness of the ( Read more... )

herooftheage pointed me to this one: I had heard years ago that captcha was not the security hurdle it was claimed to be, but this is the first mainstream news I've heard that supports this ( Read more... )

The following items are from this week's issue of Dean Martineaux's Top Tech Tidbits ( Read more... )

I just tried to join a moderated Yahoogroups mailing list and, as expected, there was the captcha image preventing me from doing so. What's more, to even send a request to the moderator to join the list, I have to get through captcha. So I emailed the folks who run the list and htey sent me a pre-approved invitation to join ( Read more... )

So it was mildly annoying that I had to find Alexx to tell me the word verification while I was subscribing to deadjournal.com (okay, it was actually kind of funny, as I patiently waited between world of warcraft battles so he could move his eyes from his computer monitor to my laptop screen), but now it seems I can't even try to find out how much ( Read more... )