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No convenient method is offered to allow blind people to submit external links to Wikimedia sites. As per the W3C recommendation: "An explicitly inaccessible access control mechanism should not be promoted as a solution, especially when other systems exist that are not only more accessible, but may be more effective, as well. It is strongly recommended that smaller sites adopt spam filtering and/or heuristic checks in place of CAPTCHA." -------------------------- **Version**: unspecified **Severity**: normal **URL**: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-turingtest-20051123/ **See Also**: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47705

No convenient method is offered to allow blind people to submit external links to Wikimedia sites. As per the W3C recommendation: "An explicitly inaccessible access control mechanism should not be promoted as a solution, especially when other systems exist that are not only more accessible, but may be more effective, as well. It is strongly recommended that smaller sites adopt spam filtering and/or heuristic checks in place of CAPTCHA." Discussions and other reports about CAPTCHAs that anybody should be aware of before working on this: * http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-April/037309.html * http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-January/065818.html * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32695 Challenges: 1. Removing captcha all-together proves that it invites too much abuse 2. External services like Google etc violate our privacy policies 3. Audio captchas present a language barrier problem (next to the language script barrier of normal captchas) 4. Writing our own solution is prohibitively expensive -------------------------- **URL**: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-turingtest-20051123/ **See Also**: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47705

No convenient method is offered to allow blind people to submit external links to Wikimedia sites. As per the W3C recommendation: to Wikimedia sites. As per the W3C recommendation: "An explicitly inaccessible access control mechanism should not be promoted as a solution, especially when other systems exist that are not only more accessible, but may be more effective, as well. It is strongly recommended that smaller sites adopt spam filtering and/or heuristic checks in place of CAPTCHA." Discussions and other reports about CAPTCHAs that anybody should be aware of before working on this: * http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-April/037309.html * http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-January/065818.html * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32695 --------------------------Challenges: **Version**: unspecified1. Removing captcha all-together proves that it invites too much abuse **Severity**: normal2. External services like Google etc violate our privacy policies **URL**: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-turingtest-20051123/3. Audio captchas present a language barrier problem (next to the language script barrier of normal captchas) 4. Writing our own solution is prohibitively expensive -------------------------- **See Also**:**URL**: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-turingtest-20051123/ **See Also**: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47705