Extension: Accessible Captchas

oh my goodness. This sound rockin’, will have to play with it this weekend. =)

Please add this to the add-on library. =)

Wow, Dry… this is fantastic. I’ve been wanting something like this ever since I saw a similar plugin for WordPress. Now I have something to play with tonight. 😊

Thanks!

Cool, have never liked the EE captcha system.

Thanks Dry

works perfect and I was looking a long time for such a solution.

One little thing: Could you put the hint text for “character(s) required” in the language file? On german sites we would like to have this be translated.

Hi Werner,

Glad you like it. I’ll make that change and update the download later on today.

Cheers

Dry

Hey Dry.

I’m not sure if this is doable with extensions as I’m wholly unfamiliar with how they work, but I was wondering if it would be possible to dynamically add more than 5 Q&A pairs. I guess I’m just worried that if, after a while, the same questions keep repeating all the bots will catch on eventually.

Am I being overly paranoid?

Looks like you should just be able to add new “questionX” & “answerX” keys to the lang file, and the same to the settings array within the ext file.

Hey Dry. I’m not sure if this is doable with extensions as I’m wholly unfamiliar with how they work, but I was wondering if it would be possible to dynamically add more than 5 Q&A pairs. I guess I’m just worried that if, after a while, the same questions keep repeating all the bots will catch on eventually. Am I being overly paranoid?

Hi Crimson,

I am not sure that is easily doable. I can certainly add more Q&A fields and you don’t have to fill them all in for the extension work correctly.

Of course, it’s easy to change the questions on an infrequent basis and that is going to be completely transparent to your site users.

Cheers

Dry

There is an additional setting: Answer hinting, that places text showing the number of characters required to complete the answer after the question. The hint will be wrapped in a span with the class ‘captcha-hints’ like so:

What is missing: North, South, East? <span class="captcha-hints">4 character(s) required</span>

Dry

Another little suggestion: could you wrap the hint in brackets () like

What is missing: North, South, East? <span class="captcha-hints">(4 character(s) required)</span>

otherwise we would need to add them in the extension file by hand

Thanks

Hi,

I’ve updated the extension to version 1.0.1. This moves the answer hint text into the language file and also adds 3 more Q&A sets giving a total of eight.

The file in the first post is the new download.

Cheers

Dry

There is an additional setting: Answer hinting, that places text showing the number of characters required to complete the answer after the question. The hint will be wrapped in a span with the class ‘captcha-hints’ like so:

What is missing: North, South, East? <span class="captcha-hints">4 character(s) required</span>

Dry Another little suggestion: could you wrap the hint in brackets () like

What is missing: North, South, East? <span class="captcha-hints">(4 character(s) required)</span>

otherwise we would need to add them in the extension file by hand Thanks

Oops,

Sorry Werner I didn’t see your additional request. You know, I wondered about adding that the first time around but figured that it would be better to leave it as clean as possible.

Lemme see if I can come up with something in the settings to let you choose whether to have them or not.

Cheers

Dry

Hi,

Updated to version 1.0.2. Changes are:

1. Added new setting to enable hints wrapped in ( and )
2. Slightly amended English language hints text

File in first post is new download.

Cheers

Dry

Dry

That’s very good. I love this ext. Many thanks.

A new suggestion: what about an option to put the Hint on a new line? Would be handy sometime. And if you do this, give it a seperate CSS class. This way one could have the question bold and the hint normal.

If you want you can have the little lang file in German to include.

Hi Werner,

Yeah, that’d be great. Send it over and I’ll update zip. Or, if you’d prefer just send me the link to your site download and I’ll update the first post.

Dry A new suggestion: what about an option to put the Hint on a new line? Would be handy sometime. And if you do this, give it a seperate CSS class. This way one could have the question bold and the hint normal.

You can already do this because the hints appear at the end of the question. All you have to do is make the hint span a block level element (in CSS) and style whatever tag you’ve wrapped around the captcha appropriately. In fact, I’ve done something like this:

Template

{captcha}

CSS

.captcha {
font-weight: 900;
}

.captcha-hints {
display: block;
font-style: italic;
font-weight: 400;
}

Cheers

Dry