Due to recent increases in spam comments, you will now get a “captcha” confirmation page if you submit a comment that has any links in it. So if you’re blind or otherwise using a screen reader: sorry, you cannot post links on my comments page at this time. I thought about doing a challenge-response thing (where there would be a question like “enter the name of that red fruit that starts with A”), but I decided this would be easier (for me anyway). Update: Now the title and alt attributes of the image are a question whose answer is the word given. Not that I know of any blind people using my site, but if there are now they can leave comments too.
I came up with a list of about 50 words (mostly names of fruits, animals, musical instruments, video game characters, and songs), put them in Photoshop and screwed around with the Liquefy tool, and added some random lines through them. I think they are all still quite legible.
I’ve tested it a good bit, but as always, let me know if you have any problems submitting comments.
October 30, 5:36 pm
Seems to work fine when I had a link in here.
There are some good transparent solutions so that this extra step might not be required to keep out the spam. I’ll be implementing some of these techniques in my new blog software, so I’ll let ya know how it works, but I think it’ll be less intrusive.