Mohamed Magdy wrote:
About those :)
Is it possible to have captcha images in another languages? i.e. captcha
internationalization.
It's possible, but it would only solve half the problem -- the other
half being that captchas fundamentally suck.
There is no way to make a captcha system universally accessible. You
think it's hard to make a text captcha accessible to speakers of all
languages? Try making an audio alternative for blind people with
complete language coverage. But that still leaves the deafblind and
people with certain mental handicaps out in the cold.
Eventually computers will surpass humans in their pattern matching and
speech recognition abilities, making captchas obsolete. I think we
should start developing tools for that day, instead of relying on this
moribund technology.
-- Tim Starling