[nfbcs] YouTube Image Capture Accessibility

[Gary Wunder]

Good deal - I am glad to see others helping him as well.

I send the very best to you and your wonderful family Please tell them 
hello.

Gary
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Jacobson" <steve.jacobson at visi.com>
To: "NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] YouTube Image Capture Accessibility


> 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.
>>E-mail: startrekcafe at gmail.com
>>MSN: sttartrekcafe at msn.com
>>Skype: startrekcafe
>>We Are The Borg! You Will Be Assimilated! Resistance Is Futile!
>>Star Trek Voyager Episode 68 Scorpian Part One
>>E-mail: startrekcafe at gmail.com
>>MSN: sttartrekcafe at msn.com
>>Skype: startrekcafe
>>We Are The Borg! You Will Be Assimilated! Resistance Is Futile!
>>Star Trek Voyager Episode 68 Scorpian Part One
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