[blindlaw] UpDate on Linkedin website:

Fri Sep 10 16:49:07 UTC 2010

Fair point.

--- On Fri, 9/10/10, Chris Danielsen <cdanielsen8 at aol.com> wrote:

> From: Chris Danielsen <cdanielsen8 at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] UpDate on Linkedin website:
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Friday, September 10, 2010, 5:42 AM
> Do you mean the concept of captchas
> in general, or visual captchas? I think
> advocacy groups have steered clear of opposing captchas
> because they are, in
> fact, a legitimate security mechanism to prevent a real
> threat. The question
> is how they should be designed. This is problematic because
> I can't think of
> a captcha that doesn't discriminate against somebody. The
> best ones are
> probably the simple logic puzzles, but even those probably
> discriminate
> against certain people with developmental disabilities. I
> guess the best we
> can hope for is a captcha that discriminates against as few
> people as
> possible, or, perhaps in the future, someone will invent a
> security
> mechanism that makes them unnecessary.
> 
> Chris
> 
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> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] UpDate on Linkedin website:
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> I don't have the answer to that one, but I am curious if
> any advocacy group
> has considered a cause of action because of these captias.
> I fail to see how
> they don't offend all of the recent cases regarding website
> accessibility.
> Cordially,
> John
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org
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> On
> Behalf Of Peter Donahue
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 4:42 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] UpDate on Linkedin website:
> 
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
>     So how can this new fangled audio captcha be
> accessed by the deaf-blind?
> 
> Peter Donahue
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William ODonnell" <william.odonnell1 at yahoo.com>
> To: <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 3:17 PM
> Subject: [blindlaw] UpDate on Linkedin website:
> 
> 
> Good afternoon list members.
> I would like to up-date you on Linkedin.  The log-in
> page has a different 
> Captcha that works and is accessible.  Once you enter
> in your log-in 
> information, a page comes up and says: "please enter the
> two words shown 
> above."  The audio link comes up with a clear voice
> that says:  "Please 
> enter the following words.  Do not worry if you have
> trouble, just enter 
> your best Guess.  You will here a number IE 5, then a
> word such as Saturday,
> 
> then a number like 8 and then a word of less.  If you
> do not enter in the 
> numbers, you can still move forward to the next page and
> access your 
> account.
> 
> 
> 
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