How Would You Design a Captcha for the Deaf-Blind? 99
kesuki asks: "Right now, the state of the art captcha only works for the visually-abled. Some people are trying to start a grass roots opposition to catcha using existing anti-discrimination laws. However, without any captcha at all, spammers would have a field day. Audio captcha would work for the blind, of course, but they still leave out the deaf-blind using brail interpreters to use their computers and navigate the web. What system of captcha can you dream up that would work for the deaf-blind?"
not so great... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:A phone number (Score:3, Funny)
They will fail the simple Turing test given by any operator who asks "how's the weather over there" or "can you believe that game last night?"
It's a person. A human being. How do you suppose a bot is going to do this?
REGISTERBOT: "Hello. I would like to sign up for an account."
OPERATOR: "Ok, No problem. What's your name?"
REGISTERBOT: "John Doe."
OPERATOR: "Hey, my in-laws are named Doe, are you any relation to the Piscataway Does?"
REGISTERBOT: "How does it make you feel when I are you any relation to the Piscataway Does?"