Gremlins! - "Join Fedora" captcha is Unreadable

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:01:41AM -0600, Clint Savage wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not actually sure, here's the app we're using:
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/tgcaptcha/
> >
> > It's a pretty easy change to start using Vanasco-Dowty but it gets tricky.
> > neither one is particularly easy to read (which I guess is the point)
> >
> >        -Mike
> 
> Actually the Vanasco-Dowty is *much* easier to read (from what I see
> on their google code page).  I can read the McDermott CAPTCHA, but it
> takes my eyes more effort and I had to squint a little.  This is just
> my experience, but I think the Vanasco-Dowty would be a good
> compromise.
> 
Bodhi switched from Vanasco-Dowty to McDermott because Vanasco-Dowty was too
hard for people to use.  I remember playing with it and I think the issue
was that Vanasco-Dowty is much harder to figure out uppercase and lowercase
than McDermott.  Note that that's not something you realize by reading the
documentation -- that's only something you realize by having your captcha
rejected because you typed "CIKLOPSUVWXZ" instead of "ciklopsuvwxz".

I'd love to see someone create a new captcha algorithm that was easier to
use.  I'd work on it myself but I don't know what a computer can or cannot
read.

-Toshio
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