Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.This might be easier for less technical people to understand:
s/CAPTCHA/Anti-Spam - Captcha
s/ "This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions." / "When you answer this question you answer this question you show us you're human. Automated spammers can't do that."
Comments
Comment #1
mgiffordI just noticed there's a major typo in my alt sentence. At present it reads:
"When you answer this question you answer this question you show us you're human."
That should, of course, read as follows:
"When you answer this question you show us you're human."
Comment #2
soxofaan commentedAre you talking about the visitors facing user interface or also the administrator side of things?
It is already possible to change the description of the CAPTCHA for visitors, even in multiple languages, so I'm not sure what you are asking.
Do you want to replace the default or something?
Comment #3
mgiffordIt was to change the default, but I hadn't actually noticed that it was avialable here as a configurable option /admin/user/captcha
Mind you that's only for the description, the title isnt' configurable and "Anti-Spam - CAPTCHA" makes more sense as a title to most people than "CAPTCHA".
Would be good to run a few of these by people or do a poll or something perhaps. Hard to know what people will ultimately understand.
When you answer this question you show us you're human. Automated spammers can't do that.
There must be some usability folks who have written about how to describe CAPTCHA's to non geeks, not just compalining at how hard they are to read/integrate.
Comment #4
elachlan commentedIf you are unhappy with the default wording, you can supply a patch and it will be considered.