I have installed an accessible Turing Test

October 30th, 2007

You will recall from my last post that I wanted an accessible anti-spam measure for this dotclear blog because of a recent rise in comment spam. I’m thrilled to say that I got one working.

I used this captcha plugin as my base. I had a bit of a problem, though. All of the tests, along with the documentation and comments in the files, were in French. Since my readers use English, I would have been excluding a ton of comments, and we wouldn’t want that.

I installed the plugin on my testbox and got to work. I translated all of the necessary files and tested heavily. One or two of the original tests didn’t work as well as I would have wished, and others required using images, which I wasn’t thrilled about, so I simply excluded them. I also wrote a few test questions and responses of my own, and may add to them later. Then I installed the plugin on this server and uploaded the new files.

Please give it a test and let me know if you encounter any difficulties. To minimize the length of this post in syndication, like on Planet Ubuntu, I’ll post the contents of the configuration files in a compressed file that I will link to in a comment below, for those who want them.

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