[Arizona-students] Captia Advocacy Question

[Mark Feliz]

Arielle,
i too am concerned with captia accessability. I use ABBYY finereader
as my primary scanning program and it has a screen shot feature that
will take a screen and OCR it. This takes a few seconds, however, it
does not always work. I am interested in what Ryan is referring to? I
strongly believe this is a big deal since more and more websites and
companies use captia. We worked with corporates such as target for
accessibility, why not this? Run this past National and get some sound
advise. It seems to me that, since some audio captia is quite usable,
then it stands to reason that all audio captia should be the same?
Right?

Mark Feliz

On 5/24/13, Gabe Vega Via Iphone4S <theblindtech at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a business owner, very busy, and not having much time to myself to write
> letters or complain. I would just find somebody to help, your fiancé, a
> friend, a colleague, a schoolmate, anybody. This is not worth it. We been
> doing this for years and some captions work some captions don't. Please
> don't make this bigger than it has to be.
>
> Gabe Vega
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> On May 23, 2013, at 6:00 PM, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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