New: Accessible Captcha with Recaptcha
Today we updated Twitter's Join page to use recaptcha. Now we can separate the humans from the spambots in style. ReCaptcha is not only fully accessible featuring an audio option, it also helps make information more accessible to the world with it's innovative book digitizing concept.
"About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that's not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into 'reading' books." Learn more about how recaptcha works.
"About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that's not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into 'reading' books." Learn more about how recaptcha works.
posted by Biz at 3:37 PM
9 Comments:
We applaud this welcome change. Now, blind and visually impaired people are afforded the opportunity to sign up and participate on Twitter. Thanks!
Bully for you! Now, if only you could put in a word to the Bloggerheads. I've got a captcha to fill in right below this form box, and I think it's helping diddly.
I have a lot of respect for you guys for keeping Web accessibility in mind when designing the future of Twitter. Keep up the good work!
I'm not sure this is necessarily a good idea. It may confuse people whose mother tongue is not English...
The ReCaptcha is a terrific idea - but accessibility - NO. Friends, try it with the keyboard, ReCaptcha. The links for audio, help, and another captcha are not in the tab order.
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This is great news, but yesterday and today the audio captcha does not seem to be working?
Uh, sounds great. Too bad it doesn't work when you try to create a new account.
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