[nfbcs] YouTube Image Capture Accessibility

[Steve Jacobson]

Gary and Mike,

I corresponded some with Marvin off list on this.  Since the NFB does have information out on YouTube and since it is 
as predominant as it is, we should get YouTube on our list as a site that needs to be contacted if they are using 
CAPTCHAs without any alternatives.  Gary, I think your advice to Marvin is really the only approach that makes sense 
as nothing will happen quickly unless they are quietly already working on something, and I asked Marvin to let us know 
if he finds out anything and said we would do the same.  

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 07:22:14 -0800, Mike Freeman wrote:

>Gary:

>A friend told me that plenty of TV shows such as Adam 12 and Emergency 
>are available from http://www.fancast.com and that the site is very 
>accessible. Haven't tried it yet myself. Perhaps I'll make it a "this 
>weekend" project!

>Mike

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Wunder, Gary" <WunderG at health.missouri.edu>
>To: "NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 6:07 AM
>Subject: Re: [nfbcs] YouTube Image Capture Accessibility


>Hi Marvin. I think the word you want is captcha. My suggestion is that
>the next time you have with someone who has vision, sign up, and then
>keep working on the issue by posting to lists like this. Maybe if you
>have an account, you have another avenue to work from the inside.

>I was not aware that Startrek episodes could be gathered in this way.
>Now you've got me interested. Looks like I'll be trying to get an
>account there.

>Gary


>-----Original Message-----
>From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of Marvin Hunkin
>Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 6:20 AM
>To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
>Subject: [nfbcs] YouTube Image Capture Accessibility

>Hi.
>well that old chest nut again. tried to signup for youtube, but ran into
>the image capture, and no alternative capture.
>so no sighted help around.
>and if i go to the youtube contact page, no e-mail, just look in the
>help resources. well tried to signup a few months ago, and ran into the
>same problem. and if i try to go to the help pages or resoucesresources,
>and try to click on any thing, it comes up with the singup or login
>screen. so how do i get around this and the only contact is the
>press at youtube.com, which i sent a message asking them to redirect to the
>owners of this site and making alternative capture possible for us blind
>people. so how did you get around this problem. a lot of sites seem to
>have no alternative capture for us blind people, who cannot see. now,
>did try firefox and web visum, but did not work, tried several times,
>tried clicking on the image, and using alt control 7 and got the web
>visum tool, but think i am logged in, or cannot remember my password,
>did click on forgot password, but nothing happend. so, how do i singup
>up, without getting very frustrated and not bother about signup and
>missing out on trying to find my favorite start trek videos to download
>and watch like star trek the next generation or voyager. so got any
>suggestions?
>cheers Marvin.
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