So just like older people have trouble with opening pills with childproof jars, I’m concerned that our seniors in our generation are going to be very frustrated by sites with ‘Captchca’ for security.
Its so friggin’ annoying when you sign up for something online and have to resort to trying to read some skewed image. Then when it doesn’t work you have to type in all the password fields. If you aren’t lucky enough to have the image reload, then you likely still can’t read it and have to try several.
This likely works well, but TWO WORDS damn you.
The ones with the audio at least try, but I seriously have a problem with ANY captchca page that DOESN’T allow you to refresh the image without affecting your form data.
Maybe I’m just getting old.
Well I just coined a phrase - “Once your a senior citizen, your always a senior citizen”.
Even you LA.
2 responses so far ↓
1 stunnaman // Apr 25, 2008 at 9:15 pm
old man how else are we supposed to stop spam
2 admin // Apr 26, 2008 at 8:50 am
my point was that we are also stopping people from being able to use their computers.
its disheartening to watch a senior citizen ‘give up’ when they were trying to post a comment or something on a site they just found - all because they didn’t understand the captcha.
the answer? if i knew that i would implement it. there are better ways. I don’t mind some captchas that are simple and to the point (i.e. three minus 1 equals what?) but you should be able to refresh it or retry it without having to refill in all the fields (i.e. password fields reset, but unless you scroll up you my not know that) - i’m sure you’ve seen this before. For older people or less experienced computer users, this can be a real problem.
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