[Arizona-students] Captia Advocacy Question

[Allison Hilliker (NFBA)]

Hi all,

Because this site is employment related, I definitely think further 
accessibility advocacy is important. With many blind people unemployed, I 
think resources like these should be given priority in terms of access 
efforts.

That said, I'm not sure where you should start with this. I'll admit that 
I've done a good deal of CAPTCHA access advocacy over the years and not once 
has it resulted in positive change. Not even once and I've probably tried at 
least a dozen different times in the past ten years.

Arielle, I'd wait a little bit before using your friends or WebVism to solve 
this particular CAPTCHA. Because if a company sees that you do have an 
account, they may make this issue less of a priority than it already is to 
them. However, I realize that life happens and that if you really need to 
use this website soon then waiting a bit may not be an option. Only you know 
that.

Perhaps we should all brainstorm a new strategy for addressing CAPTCHA 
access with companies? Because apparently what we as individuals or 
blindness org members are currently doing is not working well. Anyone got 
ideas?

Best,
Allison






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From: "Arielle Silverman" <arielle71 at gmail.com>
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Subject: [Arizona-students] Captia Advocacy Question


Hi all,
I am curious to know your thoughts on this issue and what you have
done in similar situations. This fall I will be doing some serious job
hunting and am looking at university professor positions. My advisor
and others suggested I search for job openings on the Chronicle of
Higher Education's website. I went onto their site and was thrilled to
see that they allowed job-seekers to set up an account and receive
customized job alerts by email. The catch is that creating an account
requires completing a Captia and the audio Captia they offer is
extremely hard to understand. I can usually get it after three or four
tries, but this one was impossibly difficult. After several attempts I
sent an email to their support address explaining my situation and
that the audio Captia was inadequate. I requested they create an
account for me and that they may want to change their Captia and
replace it with math problems or at least spoken words (this one was
numbers). It has been a week and I have not heard a word from them. I
could just get my fiancée to help me, or play around with WebVism, but
I am genuinely concerned that other blind job-seekers might not have
these options and might be deterred from getting this important job
information. I am curious if you guys think I should take this
complaint further and, if so, who should I contact? Have any of you
tried to get inaccessible Captias fixed? Have you succeeded?

Thanks,
Arielle

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