# reCAPTCHA in Radiant?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recaptcha-in-radiant/106646>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [June 12, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recaptcha-in-radiant/106646 "2007-06-12T20:29:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Victor\_Cosby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/e9a140/32.png) [@Victor\_Cosby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Victor_Cosby)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recaptcha-in-radiant/106646/1 "2007-06-12T20:29:03Z")

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Before I started work on this, I wonder whether anyone else has either  
implemented a hook into reCAPTCHA and Mailhide - or some other CAPTCHA  
system for blocking spam in forms or mailto links.

[http://recaptcha.net/](http://recaptcha.net/)  
[http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/](http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/)

I’m currently using reCAPTCHA gem on Rails site. There’s a Rails plugin  
too.

[http://recaptcha.net/resources.html](http://recaptcha.net/resources.html)

cheers,  
Victor

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**Author:** ![Victor\_Cosby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/e9a140/32.png) [@Victor\_Cosby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Victor_Cosby)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recaptcha-in-radiant/106646/2 "2007-06-13T19:27:54Z")

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This project is amazing, using captchas to help digitize books!  
Please do publicize anything you make with it, I would love to  
incorporate it  
-jamie

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**Author:** ![Victor\_Cosby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/e9a140/32.png) [@Victor\_Cosby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Victor_Cosby)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 12:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recaptcha-in-radiant/106646/3 "2007-06-21T12:39:58Z")

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> Before I started work on this, I wonder whether anyone else has either  
> implemented a hook into reCAPTCHA and Mailhide - or some other CAPTCHA  
> system for blocking spam in forms or mailto links.

The problem with captcha is that its not accessible… a screen reader  
cannot read it… so a blind person cannot read it too. Why not puts a  
simple question in text format? Like: “1 + 2” or “Where airplanes  
fly?” or “A hand have five…”

## – Sylvestre Mergulhão - Free Software Development

[http://mergulhao.info](http://mergulhao.info)  
[http://www.euemeu.com](http://www.euemeu.com)

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**Author:** ![Victor\_Cosby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/e9a140/32.png) [@Victor\_Cosby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Victor_Cosby)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recaptcha-in-radiant/106646/4 "2007-06-21T18:10:57Z")

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Recaptcha provides an audio version for just such reasons, although  
my experience with it so far has been less than stellar. It’s  
obviously a big concern for them, though.  
-jamie