[gui-talk] CAPTCHA is Frustrating; Solution Needed

[Gerald Levy]

The problem is that to attain a captcha success rate approaching 100%, you 
need working eyeballs to visually solve them.  Services like Solona and 
ZCaptcha tried this approach but were not successful enough to become widely 
embraced by the blind community.  As far as Firefox goes, I use version 3.6 
with Webvisum,which works fine, and don't bother with the endless stream of 
new releases every few weeks.  I hate Firefox and only use it with Webvisum 
to solve captchas when the situation arises.

Gerald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs at q.com>
To: "'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List'" 
<gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] CAPTCHA is Frustrating; Solution Needed


> Well, I don't use Firefox and this may seem odd because I love updating
> things and trying new ones, but For some reason I don't trust Firefox
> because it updates and changes so often.  Then too, if I need to solve a
> CAPTCHA I want better than 90% solutions.
>
> I don't do social networking, partly because I don't really have the time 
> to
> spend most of it online and partly because you have to solve the puzzle,
> have never been able to understand one audio had something from Google 
> sent
> to my cell phone once but by the time I figured it out the time was up and
> so it did not work.
>
> Why is it so hard for people to be honest?
>
>
>
> Rose Combs
> rosecombs at Q.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Gerald 
> Levy
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 3:14 PM
> To: Jen; Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
> 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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