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20 Jul 2013, 11:40 am

Verdandi wrote:

Callista wrote:

There needs to be an option for people with visual impairments.

There is - you can click a button to hear an audio recording instead.

And what do you do if you are hard of hearing too? The recordings are useless to me :evil:

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20 Jul 2013, 12:05 pm

Aaahhh! So annoying.....hate captchas. Hopefully the glitch (& hope it's a glitch) will be resolved soon).

I.really.am.autistic. And.can.post.if.I.want.to.

Fnord, I got an off-colour captcha too. Wonder if we could make our own captchas?

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20 Jul 2013, 12:37 pm

I thought I had been the only one to get them. Especially after i updated a program or two on my computer, which I thought was the cause.

Now I know it isn't.

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20 Jul 2013, 1:51 pm

Metalwolf wrote:

I thought I had been the only one to get them. Especially after i updated a program or two on my computer, which I thought was the cause.

Now I know it isn't.

I thought I was the only one too!

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20 Jul 2013, 2:06 pm

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The last captcha I got was "cHTulhu fhtaGn". I don't know whether to laugh or hide.

Ia! Ia! Just don't think that spelling it right will save you when the stars come right.

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20 Jul 2013, 3:23 pm

grahamguitarman wrote:

Verdandi wrote:

Callista wrote:

There needs to be an option for people with visual impairments.

There is - you can click a button to hear an audio recording instead.

And what do you do if you are hard of hearing too? The recordings are useless to me :evil:

If you're like me, you cry in frustration and play a video game instead. I am not hard of hearing but I do have audio processing issues, so it's an even bet whether I'll understand the playback.

Fnord, you should've taken a screenshot.

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20 Jul 2013, 3:46 pm

Fnord wrote:

The last captcha I got was "cHTulhu fhtaGn". I don't know whether to laugh or hide.

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20 Jul 2013, 3:51 pm

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

Edit: the browser's spellchecker actually recognizes "Cthulhu."

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20 Jul 2013, 9:07 pm

I have been away from the forums because of the CAPTCHA. I had no way to know if it was legit or not. No warning was given.

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20 Jul 2013, 10:35 pm

Verdandi wrote:

Callista wrote:

There needs to be an option for people with visual impairments.

There is - you can click a button to hear an audio recording instead.

Have you ever actually listened to the audio version? It's actually worse than the visual one. I literally cannot make out a single letter. At least with the visual ones I can tell what most of the letters are.

I hate captcha. I can almost never see what I am supposed to see. I almost never "get through" on the first attempt.

I have seen other ones where you have to answer a simple question that are a lot easier for me to use. I get wanting to keep the spambots out, but I don't know who captcha was made for....someone with superhuman visual processing capabilities, apparently.

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20 Jul 2013, 10:40 pm

I understand the need to fight spam/bots. I'm not sure if the system is malfunctioning, or if this is the "new normal".

I think it's causing a great deal of discomfort across the board for many WPers.

I'm not sure what additional steps, if any, should be taken.

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20 Jul 2013, 11:07 pm

I'm also getting tired of the stupid captchas.

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20 Jul 2013, 11:13 pm

Captcha is like getting a TSA pat-down before you can even ask a question.

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21 Jul 2013, 12:01 am

InThisTogether wrote:

Yes, I have, when i couldn't decipher the letters. I was able to understand the recording and type the correct answer.

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I have seen other ones where you have to answer a simple question that are a lot easier for me to use. I get wanting to keep the spambots out, but I don't know who captcha was made for....someone with superhuman visual processing capabilities, apparently.

No, someone with typical visual processing capabilities, but many of us don't have that.

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21 Jul 2013, 12:03 am

I am also REALLY annoyed by the captchas--I can't figure out the twisted letters and because of auditory problems, I can't figure out the audio files either. This is a vote to GET RID OF THEM.

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21 Jul 2013, 1:49 am

grahamguitarman wrote:

Verdandi wrote:

Callista wrote:

There needs to be an option for people with visual impairments.

There is - you can click a button to hear an audio recording instead.

And what do you do if you are hard of hearing too? The recordings are useless to me :evil:

I'm not hard of hearing but I couldn't make sense of what was said at all. And some of the letters are really hard to interpret. I hate that captcha thing, I've been getting it a lot over the last two months, even without images, links or bad words.
It's very annoying and more so as some of the types of letters are very hard to read. Not all, but some.
Very annoying!

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