[gui-talk] CAPTCHA is Frustrating; Solution Needed

[Baracco, Andrew W]

Aside from the CAPTCHA issue, you should really update your browser.  IE
6 is very, very old, and unsafe.  Also many web sites are not supporting
it, so this may be another reason why you are having trouble accessing
content on web sites.  If you are using XP, you should upgrade to IE 8,
or this might be a good time to try Firefox.

Andy


-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jen
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 2:20 PM
To: Gerald Levy; Discussion of the Graphical User Interface,GUI Talk
Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] CAPTCHA is Frustrating; Solution Needed

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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