[gui-talk] CAPTCHA is Frustrating; Solution Needed

Sat Feb 2 11:24:28 UTC 2013

All versions of internet explorer are very were very unsafe before the 
javaruntime engine issue that came up with Oracle and Microsoft a couple 
months ago happened.  The java runtime engine issue which is still very 
much open just exaserbates that situation.  Woody Leonhardt on the 
infoworld.com website has been writing about this issue often in the 
last two months.  If you go for firefox or chrome disable java in both 
of those browsers and in firefox get the webvisum add-on and in chrome 
get the chromevox add-on and install those.  The chromevox add-on has 
the most support for jaws.  A reason for considering chrome in the mix 
is that it is usually the most secure of the three leading browsers out 
of the box with no configuration modifications.  Another possibility 
might be seamonkey which is accessible and especially suited to machines 
with low resources.  The seamonkey browser is a replacement for both 
firefox and thunderbird and has all of that inside the main seamonkey 
package environment.

On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Baracco, Andrew W wrote:

> 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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