[nabs-l] Capta

[Ignasi Cambra]

I agree, something needs to be done about this. But if a deaf-blind person can use a screen reader with a braille display, then solona or WebVisum are just as useful, convenient or inconvenient to use as they are to anyone else. Those audio alternatives are sometimes useless, because it's very hard to understand them. Most of the time I just use one of the captcha solution services even if there is an audio captcha available.
On Oct 20, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Peter Donahue wrote:

> Good morning everyone,
> 
>    And if you're blind and deaf you really have a problem with these 
> things. Much has been done to create audio alternatives but nothing is being 
> done to make these CAPTCHAs make their information available tactually. I've 
> said it before and will say it again. If we can build an interface to allow 
> a blind person to drive a car independently we should be able to create a 
> way for screen readers to read CAPTCHA information and reproduce it both 
> audibly and tactually so those with severe hearing impairments can have full 
> access to Web sites where these things are used. In light of our work with 
> Virginia Tech the excuse that the technology to accomplish this isn't there 
> doesn't wash with me. The same is also true of the blind driver interface 
> but we're moving full speed ahead on that one. We should be doing the same 
> with improving the usability of CAPTCHAS.
> 
> Peter Donahue
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Nicole B. Torcolini" <ntorcolini at wavecable.com>
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 1:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Capta
> 
> 
> It is really annoying. The idea is that a computer cannot hack it because
> the print is not recognizable by OCR and the speech is to unintelligible to
> be recognized. It seems to work fine for sighted people; I think that the
> most tries that a sighted person ever had to do on it was 3, but I couldn't
> understand the speech if I listened to it 1000000 times. There is discussion
> about alternative methods of security, such as writing out a question that
> only has one answer but that a computer would not be able to understand. For
> example:
> what is 1+1
> and
> what is one plus one
> mean the same thing to a human and would result in
> 2
> or two
> but a computer probably has less of a chance of understanding the writing
> than it would understanding the math.
> 
> Nicole
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rob" <rmlambert1987 at yahoo.com>
> To: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>; "National Association of
> Blind Students mailing list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 8:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Capta
> 
> 
>> Captcha is a visual utility implemented for security - to tell the
>> difference between a human & a computer. It is not accessible by screen
>> readers, hence the assistance website.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPod
>> 
>> On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:09 PM, "Ashley  Bramlett"
>> <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> What is CAPTA?  Maybe the advocacy program for your state.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicole B. Torcolini"
>>> <ntorcolini at wavecable.com>
>>> To: "NABS-L" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 7:11 PM
>>> Subject: [nabs-l] Capta
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Does anyone know the information for the capta assistance website?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Nicole
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