Re: nospam plugin vulnerable ?

The nospam plugin and any other form of captcha prevents blind folks and 
various other disabled folks from posting comments.  You're absolutely 
right.

Thus, if you're concerned about blind readers (and that's a good thing), I 
don't think you should use the nospam plugin at all.  I don't use it on my 
site, for example.  I use a combination of my comment_blacklist plugin 
(which just ignores any comments that have specific words in them [which 
seems to work ok right now, but definitely won't work forever]) and all 
comments created first go into an approval state before getting posted to 
my site.  Then I have a script that allows me to flick through them really 
quickly to delete the bad ones and publish the good ones.

My point being that if you're concerned about blind folks, don't use the 
nospam plugin.

I'll make a note of this on the web-site.

/will


On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I dont installed the plugin, because it also prevent blind users to add
> comments. But I think it is hard to create an alt attribute, which can
> permit comments for humans and prevent robots to spam. Maybe a optional
> sound output could be a solution.
>
> This is just an idea and i want show another problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> Keywan


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