[gui-talk] Fwd: Yahoo Petition for Captcha fix

[Steve Pattison]

>From: petrakigianos-giasou at yahoo.com
>To: blindreplay at freelists.org
>
>We ask all of you to review and sign the Yahoo's Accessibility
>Improvement Petition at
>
>http://www.petitiononline.com/yabvipma/petition.html
>
>  asking the company to make an audio alternative to its CAPTCHA
>available so that the blind and visually impaired will be
>permitted timely access to the
>same services as those already granted the sighted. The use of a
>telephone callback scheme is totally insufficient as it does not
>grant the same level
>of instant access as the sighted and Yahoo personnel
>do not consistently make contact in a timely manner. It is our
>ongoing contention that visual only CAPTCHA schemes without at
>least an accessible audio
>alternative represent "No Blind People Allowed" signs in much
>the same way as African-Americans were deliberately denied entry
>to restaurants and other
>similar public accomodations in the era of segregation. We ask
>Yahoo to simply fix their grievous error by promptly adding an
>audio CAPTCHA to all its
>properties as soon as possible as part of the company's ongoing
>accessibility initiatives.
>
>Darrell Shandrow - Accessibility Evangelist
>Information should be accessible to us without need of
>translation by another person.
>Blind Access Journal blog and podcast:
>http://www.blindaccessjournal.com
>Check out high quality telecommunications services at
>http://ld.net/?nu7i

Regards Steve
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