Comments on: How to Increase Sign-ups with Easier Captchas

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:06:00 +0000

Wow, that’s a really good point – hadn’t thought of that. I’ve just done some tests with IE 8, Firefox 4, Safari 5 and Chrome 10 and it turns out they were all fine except there was actually a problem with Chrome. So, thanks a lot for the heads up!

I was using “name2″ for my hidden field and Chrome was filling this in. But this was solved by changing the field name to something random like “isd7sufh45n”. Now it seems to work fine again :)

By: Gemma Weirs

Gemma Weirs — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:07:00 +0000

I’m not sure that would work every time for people who use browsers that will fill in forms automatically (if enabled). Has anyone tested that out?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:40:00 +0000

Yeah, I find it amazing how websites seem to have blindly accepted that dodgy captchas are the way to go. In fact, captchas are completely unnecessary – you don’t need them at all. I wrote a post about it here http://www.webmasterworld.com/webmaster/3218242.htm

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By: No_limits43

No_limits43 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:53:10 +0000

Then to the Supreme Court for visits with some of them . ,

By: No_limits43

No_limits43 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:53:00 +0000

Then to the Supreme Court for visits with some of them . ,

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By: So macht man Captchas nur noch halb so nervig… – uxzentrisch

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By: Michael Troy

Michael Troy — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:23:41 +0000

Even better would be an article on alternatives to using captcha. I’d love to see some creative examples and solutions. I like what @Martin Tajur had to say. This is an acceptable solution as it was in context with the subject matter.

By: Lingerie Lori Dell

Lingerie Lori Dell — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:08:31 +0000

Captchas are such a pain.. Yet necessary to fight the spam, there are times that I know for a “fact”there in NO way anybody can make them out… Some people just have too much fun thinking about what hell they are putting people through. It is a good idea to remove the captcha once it is correct… Yea!

By: Angelina

Angelina — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:05:45 +0000

Thanks Ryan for good examples and for sharing with us.

By: Michel Tel

Michel Tel — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:27:15 +0000

Great use of interaction design and usability. Glad to see there are some real good examples, that don’t frustrate the users.

By: John

John — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:00:58 +0000

Thanks Ryan. I appreciate it very much if you can record and share the videos after the conference. It’s too difficulty for me to go abroad and join the conference.

By: Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:52:32 +0000

You can see the whole schedule here: http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2009/london/schedule

By: John

John — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:49:37 +0000

Where are the two awesome talks by Britt and Dustin? I can’t find them though google.

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By: Fahed

Fahed — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:48:03 +0000

Amazingly enough, I just created a Twitter account about 10 minutes ago and experienced this very thing when the email address was recognised as already being in use.

What I would recommend, though, which is what we implemented on my other company’s redesign (yet to go live), is to use some other form of bot recognition first. If the form’s submission was suspicious in any way, then ask the user to do a captcha.

This way, the vast majority of innocent people need not be bothered by it at all. And the few suspicious ones pay the price for being suspicious.

By: Martin Tajur

Martin Tajur — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:44:32 +0000

What we did with our Stop Killing Dogs online petition (located at http://www.uniteddogs.com/stopkillingdogs ) was that we introduced three images – each containing a silhouette of an animal. One of the three was a dog and the order of these images was always different. The visitor had to indicate which of the images was a dog. Of course, this approach has implications with accessibility, but we keep on thinking and improving. Perhaps it can be solved with audio or textual captions (e.g. using onomatopoeia-like words for alt=”" parameters that represent the sound each animal makes – woof-woof, oink oink, etc)

By: Tobin Harris

Tobin Harris — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:28:14 +0000

Nice tip!

Another thing that I do is to hide the captcha until gets to the filling in password verification field. My thinking is that this makes the form less of a visual/conceptual burden on first appearances, so less likely to scare them off.

By: Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:17:07 +0000

They’re actually already doing that – it’s a great combo of the methodologies.

By: Dave Sparks

Dave Sparks — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:05:36 +0000

Would be interesting to get some figures for A/B testing like you mentioned, but certainly a good example to follow

By: Jordan Moore

Jordan Moore — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:03:57 +0000

Alternatively, you could use inline validation before the form is sent to avoid filling in those horrible captchas over and over. Although this is a good non-JavaScript solution.