I was wrong, the third character is apparently a nine.
There ought to be a Captcha gallery/blog for all these. Apparently I’m not the only one who feels that way. Oh well, blame the spammers.
But more to the point, what’s up with this Captcha brought to you by the letters “A…F”???? Hex captcha? Hey, why bother with letters at all, let’s just go with binary captcha.
Here’s how inaccessible Captcha should really be done. (My first in-blog form too :-)).
3 responses so far ↓
1 Mordraug // Mar 10, 2006 at 10:16 am
Word! Most captcha’s totaly suck, including mine. But as you say blame the spammers.
2 justaddwater.dk | CAPTCHA usability: Humane alternative to CAPTCHA // Oct 23, 2006 at 1:25 pm
[…] So, much of this is learning from usability: Stop hurting the users! There are so many problems with traditional CAPTCHAs described already by me, Roger Johannson, Peter Krantz, Michael Mahemoff, Bob Easton, Christian Heilmann. […]
3 Peder // Oct 30, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Well, I would suppose that captchas stop at least 90% of spammers. But then again, it’s the last 10% that are really hard core and send 90% of the spam.
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