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

[Baracco, Andrew W]

That ain't so simple. Millions, perhaps billions of people use Amazon
worldwide. If all the blind folks stopped using Amazon, it would be less
annoying to them than a fly landing on your ear.

Andy


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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [gui-talk] Image Captcha On Amazon.com Site?

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

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Gerald
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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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