[gui-talk] CAPTCHA is Frustrating; Solution Needed

[Jude DaShiell]

You do need an invite for webvisum from an existing member of webvisum.On 
Sat, 2 Feb 2013, Rose Combs wrote:

> 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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