Audio captcha ALMOST usable by those who need it

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k8's picture

I am sighted and until recently I would never use Mollom or captcha since I personally could not understand the audio. Recently I decided to implement captcha on our Drupal registration form and asked our staff to test and received the feedback below. I personally think that an instruction to just enter the first letter of each word could be added - (I was confused).

Additionally I will note that even though the issue below might be able to be fixed even while retaining use of Flash for the audio button, vision-impaired users often disable Flash. Currently the Firefox Flash plug-in on one of my machines is not working and the button does not appear at all for me. Is Flash really necessary to implement the button to play the generated mp3?

From one of our technical support staff who is blind:

I just tested the registration form. The audio in the CAPTCHA is OK but I could not play it using the keyboard. The button which needs to be clicked to play the audio has a very strange label “mollom-captcha-player.swf?url=http%3a%2f%2f174.37.205.152%3a80%2fv1%2fcaptcha%2f120131d97eaf8191ca.mp3 Button”
And pressing spacebar or Enter does not activate this button. Further, when the button is activated the focus should jump to the edit field where captcha text is to be typed. This is also not happening currently.

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Molum Error

mgifford's picture

I think you need to report an error here - http://drupal.org/project/issues/mollom?categories=All

Is this on your own site or on a Drupal.org site?

Which version of Mollom are you using?

Mollom Audio Captcha

k8's picture

Mollom 6.x-1.16 on my site, daisy.org, now disabled.

Same problem on mollom.com where I sent issue via contact form Jan. 31, no response.

I will enter as issue on mollom project - many related issues are closed.

Suggest others test current release in D6, D7 and on mollom.com. I'll suggest this as a topic on accessibility call.