[gui-talk] Image Captcha On Amazon.com Site?

Hawkeye hawkeye at cox.net
Fri Nov 13 12:22:07 UTC 2015


Simple. Don't do your shopping on Amazon. If enough people did that and
informed them as to why, they would get the message. 

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From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Gerald Levy
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Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 4:13 AM
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Subject: [gui-talk] Image Captcha On Amazon.com Site?


I belong to a number of blindness-related technology lists, and in the past
few days, some people have reported encountering image captchas on the
Amazon.com site when they attempt to sign in to their accounts.  I placed an
order three days ago and did not encounter any image captchas myself, but
I'm wondering whether anyone else has recently been confronted by an image
captcha on the Amazon site.  One person claims that he was confronted with
an image captcha on the accessible Amazon.com site, which is supposed to be
optimized for screen readers, and thus,should presumably be blind-friendly.
And there is apparently no auddio challenge alternative to the image
captcha,so unless you have Firefox with the Webvisum add-on, there is no way
to solve it without sighted help.  A few people have complained to Amazon
about this issue, but have not yet received any responses.  .  If
Amazon.com, the world's largest online merchant, has, in fact, added an
image captcha as part of its sign-in procedure, what , if anything, can be
done to force them to remove it?  I'm planning to do a lot of holiday
shopping on Amazon, and the last thing I need is to be confronted by an
image captcha to spoil my shopping experience.

Gerald 

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