[gui-talk] CAPTCHA is Frustrating; Solution Needed

[Jen]

See, I still have Internet Explorer 6, and I'm disappointed there is no 
add-on.

Regarding your comment on screen readers:

Even if a company wanted to address the issue, I con't think they could 
because CAPTCHA's aren't made for screen readers anyway, because there 
is no "long description" thing on them. So we're screwed.

Or am I being overly pessimistic?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited at verizon.net>
To: "Jen" <spiderweb1 at sbcglobal.net>; "Discussion of the Graphical User 
Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] CAPTCHA is Frustrating; Solution Needed



Currently, the only way to solve image captchas without sighted help is 
to
use Firefox with the Webvisum add-on, which works about 90% of the time.
Once you install Webvisum, you simply press Alt-Control-numrow 6 on the 
web
page that contains the captcha, and it is submitted to Webvisum which 
then
uses some kind of proprietary method to solve it and return the result a 
few
seconds later to your clipboard, ready to be pasted into the appropriate
edit field.  Unfortunately, there is still no similar add-on for 
Internet
Explorer, and none of the commercial screen reader companies have 
expressed
interest in dealing with this issue because of legal and technical
challenges.

Gerald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jen" <spiderweb1 at sbcglobal.net>
To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 4:28 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] CAPTCHA is Frustrating; Solution Needed


> Hello everyone,
>
> My name is Jen, and I am a member of the National Federation of the
> Blind of Connecticut.
>
> CAPTCHA is a huge problem for us and will probably get bigger because
> more sites are using it. Like, I can't get into my SBC Global Web mail
> because it requires CAPTCHA.
>
> So what is being done about CAPTCHA? How to solve it so it is 
> accessible
> and secure?
>
> And not a lot of Web sites are doing anything about CAPTCHA...
>
> and the audio CAPTCHA's suck, too...I've tried them and can never get
> them right...
>
>
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