[Electronics-talk] captia

Mon Aug 20 01:32:34 UTC 2012

Firefox is pretty much the only web browser I use these days, and I
personally don't find that it has too many glitches to use as my
everyday browser. I've used it for years, and about two years ago, I
switched to Firefox pretty much exclusively. My use of Firefox has very
little to do with Webvisum. My previous employer used Firefox as it's
internally supported browser, so, even though I'd started using it
before then, this made me use it much more regularly to access my former
employer's internal web sites. Two years ago, when I switched to running
Linux as my day to day OS, I started using Firefox exclusively on both
Linux and Windows. Other features built into Firefox, such as Firefox
Sync, also made Firefox an appealing option to me, especially as I used
it on more and more systems.

I can't remember the last time I even brought up Internet Explorer.
Google Chrome, with ChromeVox, is usually my backup browser, if I want
to find out if a site behaves a little more accessibly with another
browser and screen reader.

BTW, I don't understand the laziness statement. Even though I'm a
Firefox user, I can see where some people would prefer Internet Explorer
and wouldn't want to switch. These people would obviously benefit from
having a CAPTCHA solving plugin for IE, and laziness wouldn't have
anything to do with it.

On 19/08/12 16:22, Gerald Levy wrote:
> 
> Webvisum is a Firefox add-on that solves image captchas using some sort
> of proprietary technique.  Once you have installed Webvisum, you use
> Firefox to load the  web page containing the captcha you want to solve,
> and press Alt-Control-numrow 6 to submit it for analysis.  When the
> captcha has been solved, the result is placed on your clipboard, ready
> to be pasted into the appropriate edit field.  It works about 95% of the
> time.  For many users like me, Webvisum is the only reason to use
> Firefox which has too many glitches to function as a primary browser.
> 
> Gerald
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roland Hudson" <rollieshirl at cox.net>
> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 4:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] captia
> 
> 
>> Hi,
>> What is webvisum, and how is it used? Thanks in advance for help.
>>
>> Rollie
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Schulz"
>> <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 1:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] captia
>>
>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> be greatful for webvisum!
>>> if people are too lazy to use it, they deserve to be stuck!
>>> Bryan Schulz
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Lange" <lange85 at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
>>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 3:17 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] captia
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Solona is gone. Too bad, really.  Even though it was rather
>>>> labor-intensive to use, it was the only thing going for Internet
>>>> Explorer and it worked reasonably well. Since humans were on the
>>>> back end, viewing the captchas and sending the results to those who
>>>> used it, it's a safe bet that people didn't want to volunteer to do
>>>> that anymore, or funding for the service was meager at best and it
>>>> just dried up. Either way, it's gone, and that's a drag for us IE
>>>> users.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Chaltain"
>>>> <chaltain at gmail.com>
>>>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
>>>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 12:45 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] captia
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> It's not a plug in, and I don't know if the service is still
>>>>> available,
>>>>> but there used to be A CAPTCHA solving service at www.solona.net that
>>>>> would work with IE. Just Googling for CAPTCHA solving plug ins for IE
>>>>> also yielded a few results, but I don't know if any of these
>>>>> plugins are
>>>>> accessible or not or how well they work..
>>>>>
>>>>> This doesn't seem to be on topic for this list, at least to me, so you
>>>>> might try other lists where it's more obviously on topic. You might
>>>>> get
>>>>> some more information.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 19/08/12 14:20, Gerald Levy wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The only image captcha solver that I am aware of is Webvisum which
>>>>>> only
>>>>>> works with Firefox.  Developing an captcha solver that works with IE
>>>>>> would be the Holy Grail of add-ons.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gerald
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Vandervest"
>>>>>> <timelord09 at att.net>
>>>>>> To: <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>>>>> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 2:55 PM
>>>>>> Subject: [Electronics-talk] captia
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> does anybody know of a captia reader thet works in internet
>>>>>>> explorer?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There are none so blind as those who will not see
>>>>>>> William And ld Lynard
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