[Trainer-talk] captcha killer

[Blaine Clark]

The only way to bypass a CAPTCHA is to force-hack a web site. That's 
illegal. Very tempting! But illegal.

What's needed are demands forimproved ADA compliantstandards for 
simplified CAPTCHAs such as the 'answer the math question' type, or the 
ones that tell you what word to type in or the ones that simply ask you 
to click here if you're human. There just aren't enough of those. 
There's also another one that uses a hidden form or button that the 
sighted user can't see. If there's an entry in it, then the site knows 
that a 'bot has automatically entered it, but I wonder how these hidden 
ones show up, if they show up, for text to speech programs. Are they 
labeled well enough to keep a blind user from clicking on it just 
because it's there?

I'm fully sighted and I have a bear of a time with many of the ones that 
are so graphically garbled that it's impossible to determine what's in 
the picture. I don't know how many times I've clicked on 'Request a 
different CAPTCHA' just to get one that I can decipher. An organized 
request for ADA compliance on CAPTCHAs beyond the so-called accessible 
audio option should do the trick. I've tried some of those audio ones as 
well, and if they aren't mangled, they're OK, but it's still a 
ridiculous pain where only a suppository can reach! And when you're only 
given an audio or a visual cue, how can someone with even slightly 
impaired vision and hearing get around them? Impossible! That can't be 
fully ADA compliant except through stretching the legal terms of ADA to 
the breaking point.

Blaine



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> Hello everyone,
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> Do any of you know of a piece of software that allows a user to completely
> bypass captchas? I'm not talking about apps like webvisum which gives you a
> code that allows you to solve the captchas, but software that totally
> bypasses the barrier entirely. If you any of you have any info, please let
> me know.
>
>
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> Joshua Boudreaux, Director of Technology
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> Louisiana Center for the Blind
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> From: Jeanine Lineback<jeanine.lineback at gmail.com>
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> Wow, if someone has that I bet we'd all like to know what it is. I
> know I would so please post to the list.
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>
> On 3/22/12, Joshua Boudreaux<jboudreaux at lcb-ruston.com>  wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>>
>>
>> Do any of you know of a piece of software that allows a user to completely
>> bypass captchas? I'm not talking about apps like webvisum which gives you a
>> code that allows you to solve the captchas, but software that totally
>> bypasses the barrier entirely. If you any of you have any info, please let
>> me know.
>>
>>
>>
>> Joshua Boudreaux, Director of Technology
>>
>> Louisiana Center for the Blind
>>
>> lcb-ruston.com
>>
>> (318) 251-2891
>>
>>
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