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Captcha Gone Mad

February 24, 2009 by Michele Neylon 4 Comments

While I can fully understand and appreciate people using captcha on web submission forms to stop spam / robots, I really don’t get why anyone would make a captcha so complicated that it is unusable.

The IIA Netvisionary nomination form has this “lovely” captcha on it:
inaccessible captchaI saw that and my eyes glazed over.

Sorry guys, but there is no way that I’m even going to attempt to make sense of that.

Darragh also posted about this (he’d know!)

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Filed Under: accessibility, Web Design Tagged With: usability

Michele is founder and CEO of Irish hosting provider and domain name registrar Blacknight. Read More…

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Comments

  1. Darragh says

    February 24, 2009 at 1:35 pm

    It’s really laughable! How can a site clame to have an accessibility statement… http://www.iia.ie/accessibility/ but then use such an inaccessible form of Captcha. What’s worse is it’s widely known to be inaccessible!

  2. Mark says

    February 24, 2009 at 2:13 pm

    MACCUTX

  3. Tom Doyle says

    February 25, 2009 at 10:26 am

    Nevermind the ridiculous captcha… there’s an error on submission of the form!

  4. Fergal Byrne says

    March 9, 2009 at 3:52 pm

    I like this one a little better…
    http://www.webdesignbeach.com/beachbar/ajax-fancy-captcha-jquery-plugin

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