The problem with image-based authentication

[Tony Collen <co...@umn.edu>]

http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-turingtest-20031105/

The W3C has a good writeup about image-based authentication (The Cocoon 
samples have something like this which I implemented in Flow).  They 
also offer some good suggestions for alternatives to IBA.

At a former job, I had a coworker who was legally blind, and he was an 
amazing programmer.  However, his screen reader relied on certain 
accessibility features of Windows to work correctly.  I heard recently 
that IDE licenses were purchased for all of the developers, and they 
didn't even realize the IDE didn't work with his screen reader, 
rendering the IDE utterly useless to him.

Read the above document and keep it in mind when implementing web 
applications.



Tony