RasterWeb!In captcha this! I mused about how you might use ASCII banner text as a captcha, well, them dang spammers must have been listening!
I submit to you an example of the spammy email I got recently. (I hope you’ve got a monospaced font installed.)
Clever! What will they try next?
Some web sites use a ‘captcha’ which is a dynamically generated image with some code that must be input for you to post a comment. It’s a great idea, but oh, the accessibility of it all! What of people who can’t read that image? I mean, come on, haven’t we all dove into accessibility by now?
I have a solution, in the form of Text::Banner, and it goes something like this:
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There! An accessible captcha ‘image’ as it were… it should even work in Lynx!
But wait, don’t like horizontal, try vertical! That’ll trip up those pesky spambots!
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Urm… maybe not… I’ll work on it a bit more…