[Electronics-talk] capchas

[Christopher Chaltain]

WebVisum is a Firefox extension that's intended to help make web sites
more accessible. You can label objects which don't have alternative text
associated with them, stop images from being displayed or sounds from
being played automatically and more. The most notable feature, and the
feature which is covered in this thread, is it's ability to help you
solve captha's.

You can find out more from http://www.webvisum.com/

Welcome to Webvisum
WebVisum is a unique browser add on which greatly enhances web
accessibility and empowers the blind and visually impaired community by
putting the control in your hands! Its aim is to allow you to better
enjoy surfing the net and be significantly less dependent upon outside
help. Now available in English, German, Russian, Italian, Slovak,
Bulgarian, Dutch, Croatian, Romanian, Portugese, Turkish and Spanish! If
you want to help, login into your account and visit the Community page!

Just a few exciting features that we already offer:

    Community driven tagging and page enhancements.
    Automated and instant CAPTCHA image solving, sign up to web sites
and make forum posts and blog comments without asking for help!
    Built in helper functions for easier page navigation and less confusion.
    Numerous under the hood page tweaks designed to help screen reader
users.
    Visually Impaired users benefit from features such as high contrast
page viewing, link and focus highlighting, and more.


It is only available for the Firefox browser. If you have not used
Firefox, or used an old version, we highly recommend that you Download
which is probably the most accessible, fast and overall best web browser
on the Internet. You won't regret it!

Start using the service straight away by first creating an account with
us through the Register page and then installing the add on in your
Firefox. For more information on how to use the service, please read the
Tutorial through. Once you are running Firefox with Web Visum installed,
you can press CTRL+F1 at any time for the quick help screen.

Note that I just looked this up with Google. Further note that I don't
think WebVisum is on topic for the list, since it isn't an off the shelf
accessible electronics device.

On 24/04/12 21:11, Tony Sohl wrote:
> What is webvisum?
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandy" <sandraburgess at msn.com>
> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 6:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] capchas
> 
> 
>> Hi List,
>>
>> I once had Web Visum and loved it.  After I had a big computer
>> problem, I somehow lost it and now I can't get it back.  The newer
>> versions of Firefox aren't compatible with Web Visum, so I have
>> deliberately attempted to keep version 3.502.  However, I always get
>> an error message when I go to install Web Visum and I can't get
>> anywhere posing a question to the Web Visum mailing list.
>> Any assistance is appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Sandy
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Baracco, Andrew W" <Andrew.Baracco at va.gov>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:44 PM
>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] capchas
>>
>>> The whole purpose of CAPTCHA's is to be difficult to understand.  The
>>> theory is that if they are difficult to understand, that they will block
>>> computers from accessing the site.  The problem is that computers are
>>> becoming smarter.  As far as I know, if sighted assistance is not
>>> available, the best solution is to use Firefox with the Webvisum
>>> plug-in.
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>> [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of JULIE
>>> PHILLIPSON
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 7:23 AM
>>> To: electronics talk
>>> Subject: [Electronics-talk] capchas
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a good way to handle these beside vision?  I can not
>>> understand them and when I type what I think I hear well it doesn't take
>>> it.  So far I have just avoided sites that use them because I have no
>>> other choice.  I rarely have someone around that can help me with it
>>> when I need them.  I've tried to call or contact the company but guess
>>> what no phone number and contact us email never gets a response!  I've
>>> seen some very easy to understand capchus a couple of times but others
>>> are just to obscurer to understand.  Anyone have any good idea's of how
>>> to handle them accept with good old vision?
>>> Julie Phillipson

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Christopher (CJ)
chaltain at gmail.com