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Human readable Captcha?

Dmitrij Jazel
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Anyone has any suggestions for some Human readable Captchas maybe?

by saying human readable I mean something that can be read, cause some of them have too much background noise that it is almost impossible for human to read it.

 


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Dmitrij Jazel
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Hmm, is this post too complicated, or not clear enough, or obvious as so noone bothers to answer? :-)

I just wanted to hear what Captchas did you guys used, cause I tried to use one, recommended at stack overflow, and it works fine in my local empty web app. but not when I use it in DW.

 

 
David Matheson
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Hi,

Not quite what you are looking for, but a different approach:

  1. Add a new input field with the label "Please leave blank" to your form
  2. Hide the input field and label using CSS
  3. Then use DW8 validation and set the field to max(0)

The reason for using CSS to hide the field is because you may have some handicapped users that turn off the CSS in order to - better - read the site.

This should prevent 100% automated bots from submitting forms, but not someone who manually inspects the code. Then again, if they decide to attack your site manually, they can get around any Captchas you are using. 

Cheers
// David

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
David Matheson
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Or you can use this: http://keith-wood.name/realPerson.html which is a readable jQuery CAPTCHA

 

 
Dmitrij Jazel
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Hello David,

Hmm... that is a bit obscure isn't it? sure your suggestion would work, but the whole idea behind CAPTCHA is in actual image with some noise.

I would use JQuery captcha instead of CSS solution. But again, almost the same thing :-)

Still thanks allot for suggestion :-) would love to use an actual real CAPTCHA though. But still that is better than nothing :-)

 

 

 

 

 
David Matheson
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Obscure is my middle name :-)

And might be the very reason it will be successful

 

 
Dmitrij Jazel
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+1 David :-D

 

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