[gui-talk] CAPTCHA is Frustrating; Solution Needed

[Rose Combs]

We are barking up the wrong tree, we need to have websites make reasonable
audible that we can understand, or have Microsoft put a solution for this
problem in IE.  Batting it around here helps emotionally but it does not
really solve the problem.  
I may put Firefox on this computer, but don't I need an invite for Webvisum?
I don't have free time to mess around right now between working, caring for
an ill family member etc.  
Just figured that we can debate what should be done here all we want but in
the end no solution that would work for all of us comes out of it.  


Rose Combs
rosecombs at Q.com


-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jen
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 3:20 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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