[gui-talk] CAPTCHA is Frustrating; Solution Needed

[Ray Foret Jr]

Not to mention which, if you use a Mac, you are about as stuck as you can be unless you install and run windows on your Mac.  Now, Firefox is very minimally accessible with the Mac:  and, I have heard of cases where Mac users have been able to use Webvisum to solve captchas with the Mac version of Firefox:  however, they tend to report that it's very much a hit and miss proposition at the moment and not ready for prime time.


Sent from my mac
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray
Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user!

On Feb 1, 2013, at 4:14 PM, "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited at verizon.net> wrote:

> 
> 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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