[gui-talk] Captcha Alternatives

[Peter Donahue]

Hello everyone,

    This whole issue has caused me to seek out alternatives to captchas and 
the problems they cause for all Web site visitors. Being a ColdFusion 
developer I was delighted to discover a utility called "CFForm Protect." 
This plug-in does its work behind-the-scenes and requires no user 
interaction removing the need to deal with traditional captchas and the 
accessibility issues they create for the blind. To learn more about CFForm 
Protect visit:
http://cfformprotect.riaforge.org/

    To see a demonstration of how it works visit:
http://www.nfb-writers-division.net/blog

    We currently have CFForm Protect running on the blog and will role it 
out to other interactive components of this Web site in the coming months.
I'll also be installing it on several other ColdFusion sites I'm creating or 
will build in the future. Want to give it a go? Select the link to the blog 
post and leave a comment. In your comment type more than six URLS, enter 
words and phrases such as free music download, or Viagra and see what 
happens. In the future CFForm Protects capabilities will be enhanced by 
linking it to Akismet and Project Honeypot.com.

    One idea I suggested to control spam while not locking out blind Web 
surfers is to find a utility that will compare a would-be spammer's IP 
address with those of known spammers and preventing that spam bot from 
entering data in to the form. Project Honeypot does exactly that! The IP 
address of an entity attempting to fill out a Web form is compared with 
Honeypot's extensive database of IP Addresses of known spammers. If a match 
is not found the entity is allowed to fill out the Web site form. If a match 
is found the entity attempting to fill out the form is prevented from doing 
so thus protecting the site's owners from spam bots. Working with CFForm 
Protect Project Honeypot gathers flagged form entries belonging to would-be 
spammers and adds their IP addresses to its database. Hence we can do a 
little community service as well as protecting our Web sites from spam bots 
all with out creating accessibility barriers for blind computer users! 
Project Honeypot is a free service.

    Akismet is a paid service that can determine if the entity filling out a 
Web form is a spammer or not. If it flaggs the entity as a spammer it 
notifies the site owner so they can take further action.

    My discovery of CFFormProtect has me wondering if there are similar 
plugging, components, and utilities developed for other Web development 
environments: ASP, PHP, ASP.NET, ETC. Perhaps this is a matter for our 
Webmasters and the IBTC to explore and gather information about these 
products and services. Whenever someone seeks our help to make their Web 
site accessible we can recommend the installation of one of these programs 
instead of captchas and the problems they create for blind and deaf-blind 
computer users. Just thought I would spread the word.

Peter Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken lawrence" <kenlawrence124 at aol.com>
To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 4:21 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] will Webvisum be rendered useless?


Hi Ken here.  I read in Kim Komando’s email that firefox has started a new 
schedule they will be new versions of the browser every too months.  I just 
got the update automaticly today and they are recommending you install it 
since no more updates will be made for version 4.  So in two months for 
example version 6 or maybe 5 point something or other.  Webvisum has been 
disabled since it isn’t updated.  the firefox browser says it will enable it 
if it has an update.  But can webvisum possible keep up with a two months 
schedule?  is our capcha solver useless thanks to this new timetable by 
firefox?
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