[nfbwatlk] Character Recognition for Security Reasons?

[Dean Martineau]

There are a couple layers of a solution to make the best of this very bad
situation.  With these implemented, I am almost always able to solve
CAPTCHAs fairly quickly and easily.  

Layer 1.

Go to solona.net and read the information about the CAPTCHA solution
service. You fill out a simple form to create an acount, and for quickest
results, download a little program to automate the process.  When you run
into a picture to type, you hit a few keystrokes and wait a minute for a
live sighted operator somewhere on the planet to send you the result which
you can type in.

Layer 2

Once you set up a Solona account, you can skip the download step and get
this down to a two keystroke process if you install IeMax from
http://EmpowermentZone.com/IEMax.exe.  This is a set of JAWS scripts which
actually are very useful for many things.  My favorite thing about them is
that with them you can mark a spot on a web page, go to a different spot,
and hit a second key which causes all text between those two spots to
effortlessly be selected.  The scripts also give access to a wealth of
information through a process similar to the Research feature of JAWS 11.

Back to the matter at hand, With this package in place, when you come to a
captcha, you hit one keystroke, then enter to accept your account
information.  The system gives you updates, and when the volunteer solves
the captcha for you, it is placed on the clipboard.

Hope this is useful.  If not, ask any questions that arise.  By the way,
Solona seeks sighted volunteers, and it is a task a person can do while on
his or her computer, with little intrusion or time required.  

Dean
 



-----Original Message-----
From: nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Prows, Bennett (HHS/OCR)
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 7:46 AM
To: NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
Subject: [nfbwatlk] Character Recognition for Security Reasons?

Ok, here's another rant from me.  More and more now, I have gone to web
sites, and tried to sign up for things, send comments or feedback, even
tried to contribute to a Congressman's campaign.  The problem is, I get
through the information required fields, only to be confronted by an
instruction to fill in the visual characters below.  Of course, I can't
see them, so, ..., some sites have a "audio" feature.  I click on the
link, and am instructed to type in the characters I hear.  I listen, and
can't remember all the characters I've heard.  So, I write them down in
Braille, and try to type them in.  Often the site won't let me, because
I assume you are supposed to type them somewhere as they are spoken.
Then, I try to write each character  in real time as I hear them, and
can't do it, as JAWS tells me I've skipped over the "edit box".  (not in
so many words.)  

 

So, how do we fill in the characters at the audio link?  Anybody know.
I'm getting sick and tired of spending my valuable time, (don't laugh
now) filling out applications, billing information boxes, comment boxes,
etc, to be stopped by the security features I don't know how to use, or
can't, which is it?

 

I know this has been a topic for years, and capsha (spelling please) has
been a particularly prickly subject, but I'm now really fed up and
confused.

Ok, enough for now.  And, if I don't have a character fill in box here,
I'll now try to send this to the list.  (grin.)

 

/s/

 

Bennett Prows

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