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<a href="/" class="homelink">Dancer Advent Calendar</a><br />

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The PerlDancer Advent Calendar is a community-driven project that aims 
to showcase the Dancer Perl web framework.
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Each day of December until Christmas, one article about Dancer. Stay tuned for new moves!
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<div class="pod-document"><h1><a name="spam_and_bot_prevention_without_the_use_of_captchas"></a>Spam and bot prevention without the use of CAPTCHAs</h1>

<h2><a name="the_problem"></a>The problem</h2>

<p>I was writing a contact form for my LLC, and having been the victim of an automated form-filler in the
past, I wanted to prevent getting spammed by my own contact form. My first instinct told me to add a CAPTCHA
to the form as a means to ensure there's a human at the keyboard. But as it turns out, this isn't a great 
solution for a variety of reasons.</p>
<h2><a name="a_little_background"></a>A little background</h2>

<p>I worked with my friend Job a few contracts back, and he is passionate about developing accessible software and
educating other developers about accessibility issues. Job really opened my eyes to a lot of bad development 
practices, and the problems they caused for users with accessibility needs. So when he heard I wanted to



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