[gui-talk] CAPTCHA is Frustrating; Solution Needed

[Jude DaShiell]

You're wrong about companies being unable to address the CAPTCHA 
problem.  Last year myself and others found the United States Navy was 
using inaccessible CAPTCHA code on its websites.  If I remember the 
address correctly, http://www.textcaptcha.com/ has CAPTCHA code that 
provides text CAPTCHA's on websites and the United States Navy is well 
into the process of replacing the inaccessible CAPTCHA code with code 
that makes those CAPTCHA's on their websites accessible to screen 
readers.  

On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Jen wrote:

> 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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