Comments on: Ensuring Accessibility? http://service.compuskills.co.uk/blog/2007/01/16/ensuring-accessibility/ Accessible Web Design Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:12:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: CompuSkills Web Design Service » Blog Archive » Weblog Spam http://service.compuskills.co.uk/blog/2007/01/16/ensuring-accessibility/#comment-23 CompuSkills Web Design Service » Blog Archive » Weblog Spam Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:44:23 +0000 http://service.compuskills.co.uk/blog/2007/01/16/ensuring-accessibility/#comment-23 [...] Weblog Spam Previously this blog, and the others managed by Compuskills web design service, has suffered from massive deluges of comment spam. This has resulted in the institution of practices such as the Captcha which was frowned up on for its lack of accessibility. [...] [...] Weblog Spam Previously this blog, and the others managed by Compuskills web design service, has suffered from massive deluges of comment spam. This has resulted in the institution of practices such as the Captcha which was frowned up on for its lack of accessibility. [...]

]]> By: Hw http://service.compuskills.co.uk/blog/2007/01/16/ensuring-accessibility/#comment-11 Hw Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:00:22 +0000 http://service.compuskills.co.uk/blog/2007/01/16/ensuring-accessibility/#comment-11 I think this authentication code is a good idea. I personally object to having to register to comment on blogs. When I am looking at blogs or websites I often want to comment but think better of it when I find I have to register with a site. Who knows which spamlists they are getting into and what they may lay themselves open to, by handing over email addresses and other details to people who can get your IP from a post. This stops me from casually responding to posts that I might otherwise want to. It means that I can normally only respond to blogs from the best known organisations, since I have some chance of trusting them not to flood me with spam, use a worm to access my networkk and so on. So I like this way of validating comments. I think this authentication code is a good idea.
I personally object to having to register to comment on blogs.
When I am looking at blogs or websites I often want to comment but think better of it when I find I have to register with a site. Who knows which spamlists they are getting into and what they may lay themselves open to, by handing over email addresses and other details to people who can get your IP from a post.
This stops me from casually responding to posts that I might otherwise want to. It means that I can normally only respond to blogs from the best known organisations, since I have some chance of trusting them not to flood me with spam, use a worm to access my networkk and so on.
So I like this way of validating comments.

]]> By: Web Design Services Team http://service.compuskills.co.uk/blog/2007/01/16/ensuring-accessibility/#comment-10 Web Design Services Team Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:31:32 +0000 http://service.compuskills.co.uk/blog/2007/01/16/ensuring-accessibility/#comment-10 Very valid comment. However, given the sheer volume of spam messages sent here it becomes a difficult issue of balancing one thing out against another. One alternative is for all comments to be held in a moderation queue but, personally, I feel that undermines the interactive nature of being able to make comments. You have raised a very interesting point though and this is something we will look into, probably with a view to producing a new "FAQ" or blog entry dedicated to the topic. Very valid comment. However, given the sheer volume of spam messages sent here it becomes a difficult issue of balancing one thing out against another.

One alternative is for all comments to be held in a moderation queue but, personally, I feel that undermines the interactive nature of being able to make comments.

You have raised a very interesting point though and this is something we will look into, probably with a view to producing a new “FAQ” or blog entry dedicated to the topic.

]]> By: Tom http://service.compuskills.co.uk/blog/2007/01/16/ensuring-accessibility/#comment-9 Tom Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:10:19 +0000 http://service.compuskills.co.uk/blog/2007/01/16/ensuring-accessibility/#comment-9 A step to accessibility might be not using a CAPTCHA. See http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/ for why, CAPTCHA's just don't work. A step to accessibility might be not using a CAPTCHA. See http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/ for why, CAPTCHA’s just don’t work.

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