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

[Joel Deutsch]

hi,

1. First of all, I went to the link provided below, read the petition and 
signed, including a short comment. I'd like to say that the optional comment 
area didn't support Jaws very well in Forms mode, and I had to leave it with 
mistakes I'd have rather cleaned up, but to keep wrestling with that comment 
input field would've taken many attempts and a lot of time. Something needs 
attention, there.

2. From the back of the Craig's List bus

Has anyone thought of getting up a similar petition to Craig's List, where 
in the past couple of years, the same graphical barrier has sprung up? I 
can't post an ad or a comment to a forum without going through an elaborate 
procedure of writing the copy in Word or a plain text editor, sending it to 
a friend who has my Craig's List user ID and pass, and having them submit 
that text in the online form so that I then receive the email that allows me 
to edit and publish it. Whew. Not fun. Not equal access, either.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Pattison" <srp at internode.on.net>
To: "GUI Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>; "Access-L" <access-l at access-l.com>; 
"VIP L" <vip-l at softspeak.com.au>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 6:24 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] Fwd: Yahoo Petition for Captcha fix



>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
Email:  srp at internode.on.net
Skype:  steve1963
MSN Messenger:  internetuser383 at hotmail.com
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