[nabs-l] Captia Advocacy Question

[Justin Young]

Hi Arielle and all!

I have not dealt with a specific situation like this, but I certainly
have had my share of inequality captions.  So far out of all the ones
that I have experienced, the best I've seen is the audio one offered
by ebay which is numbers clear enough to understand it.  I wish you
much luck in your professor journey which I'm sure you'll be wonderful
at!

Justin

On 5/23/13, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am curious to know your thoughts on this issue and what you have
> done in similar situations. This fall I will be doing some serious job
> hunting and am looking at university professor positions. My advisor
> and others suggested I search for job openings on the Chronicle of
> Higher Education's website. I went onto their site and was thrilled to
> see that they allowed job-seekers to set up an account and receive
> customized job alerts by email. The catch is that creating an account
> requires completing a Captia and the audio Captia they offer is
> extremely hard to understand. I can usually get it after three or four
> tries, but this one was impossibly difficult. After several attempts I
> sent an email to their support address explaining my situation and
> that the audio Captia was inadequate. I requested they create an
> account for me and that they may want to change their Captia and
> replace it with math problems or at least spoken words (this one was
> numbers). It has been a week and I have not heard a word from them. I
> could just get my fiancée to help me, or play around with WebVism, but
> I am genuinely concerned that other blind job-seekers might not have
> these options and might be deterred from getting this important job
> information. I am curious if you guys think I should take this
> complaint further and, if so, who should I contact? Have any of you
> tried to get inaccessible Captias fixed? Have you succeeded?
>
> Thanks,
> Arielle
>
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