Hi all:
It’s not often that we actually get to see an incident of vandalism in the Wikipedia. Today was my lucky day. Read all about it in my blog.
See you in a bit.
September 12, 2006
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Hi all:
It’s not often that we actually get to see an incident of vandalism in the Wikipedia. Today was my lucky day. Read all about it in my blog.
See you in a bit.
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I’m a defamer….
I was doing some research about CAPTCHAS and found a wikipedia entry. One paragraph addresses the issue of vision and hearing impared users by spouting off lots of numbers of impared people in the United States and the United Kingdom. But they fail to account for how many of those people use the Web. Can you spot what I added to this paragraph:
“While providing an audio CAPTCHA allows blind users to read the text, it still excludes those who are both visually and hearing impaired. According to sense.org.uk, about 4% of people over 60 in the UK have both vision and hearing impairments. There are about 23,000 people in the UK who have serious vision and hearing impairments. According to The National Technical Assistance Consortium for Children and Young Adults Who Are Deaf-Blind (NTAC), there were 9,516 deafblind children in the USA in 2004. Gallaudet University quotes a 1993 estimate of 35,000 fully deafblind adults in the USA. Deafblind population estimates depend heavily on the degree of impairment used in the definition. Which is useful information, but what percentage of those people sited as impared use the websites which would restrict them?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA#Accessibility
Comment by Ammon — September 13, 2006 @ 11:30 am
Just for the record… I’m all in favor of providing web content that is accessible to all, even the vast minority, I just thought a perspective view was necessary.
And in the end, I’m opting for a solution that doesn’t require user interaction at all.
Comment by Ammon — September 13, 2006 @ 12:00 pm
Just wondering what happens to the Wikipedia entry on the Vandals. Years ago, a famous Monty Python clip about the Vandals made the rounds of history classes as icebreakers in lessons on the Barbarian Invasions…oops, Migrations. The Roman commander orders the parents of one Vandal to the camp to answer for the actions of their son in pulling out the tent stakes or something. Of course the parents turn out to be worse than the kid.
Comment by Susan — September 14, 2006 @ 8:28 pm