Re^2: Image Verification Program

[peppiv]

in reply to •Re: Image Verification Program
in thread Image Verification Program

Hmmm. Excellent points to consider. Thanks. Sorry I couldn't find this link earlier.

But how do you get around the typical username/password authentication to log into one of your accounts somewhere? Wouldn't they need to be ADA compliant also? Or does a good text-to-speech reader read the text and prompt the individual to type their info?

peppiv

[merlyn]

Exactly. If it's text, it can be read. If it's an image without an ALT tag, it's just a blobbish thingy and therefore unavailable to the reader.

[Aristotle]

I have been seing services adopting the practice of offering sound files as a verification vehicle for those who can't see the image.

I don't know of a CPAN module that implements this so far, though, so you'd have to roll your own on this one.

[adrianh]

I have been seing services adopting the practice of offering sound files as a verification vehicle for those who can't see the image

Which is, of course, equally problematical for people with hearing disabilities - often the very same people who have visual disabilities :-)

[Wassercrats]

If you want to make sure you'll be ADA compliant, there's some information on creating an audio Turing test here. I responded to that thread at the bottom, but I'm not familiar with that message board and I might try creating a new thread that gets pushed to the top of the list where someone might actually see it.

UPDATE: See the replies I got here.

[Wassercrats]

See this.

P.S. If people get downvoted for posting a new reply to make sure the questioner gets alerted, then there should be an option to alert someone of a significant node update so he won't miss it.