Unfortunately those are far and few in between.

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> On Apr 29, 2014, at 5:05 PM, Bill Pasco <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> This is interesting, thanks for sharing it. I see one pretty big hole in
> it though. This would be useless for a deaf blind person using a Braille
> display.  There is a really elegant solution I've run into here and there
> for Captcha. Instead of having to see an image, or hear sounds, it asks a
> simple addition or subtraction question at random, and you fill in the
> answer. For instance, it might say, "What is 3 plus 15." You fill in "18"
> in the edit field and bingo.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [VICUG-L] Captcha
> 
> By Carrie Wells, The Baltimore Sun
>  April 27, 2014
>  While blind people can browse the Internet through a variety of means,
> there is often one thing that stops them cold - a security feature known
> as a CAPTCHA that's designed to distinguish human users from robots.
>  CAPTCHAs, in which a user must identify the letters in a distorted
> image, are commonly used to block automated bots from grabbing up all the
> tickets for an event, signing up for thousands of email addresses in a
> short period of time or unfairly swaying the results of an online poll.
> They have drawn criticism from advocacy organizations for the blind for
> being too difficult to use, but last month, Towson University secured a U.
> S.  patent for a new kind of CAPTCHA that's intended to be easier for
> those with limited or no eyesight.
>  With Towson's SoundsRight CAPTCHA, users listen to a series of
> 10 random sounds and are asked to press the computer's space bar each
> time they hear a certain noise - a dog barking, a horse neighing - among
> the other sounds.  The developers say it is superior to Google's current
> audio alternative CAPTCHA, citing studies showing that version's failure
> rate of 50 percent for blind users.
>  "Blind people are capable of doing everything that a visual person can
> on the Internet," said Jonathan Lazar, a Towson professor who has led a
> group of graduate and outside researchers on the project.  "We just try
> to come up with some equivalent features that make it easier."
>  "Some people are unaware that blind people can use the Internet," Lazar
> added.


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