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

Fri Jul 20 02:49:44 CDT 2007

Well, that's good news! I had no idea. Last time I tried to use it, it 
didn't. But it's been months since then. I'll look again and see for myself. 
Thanks.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Marthouse" <dmart at pure.net>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Fwd: Yahoo Petition for Captcha fix

Hello Listers,

Craig's does have an audio captcha scheme.  It works well.

Dave Marthouse
dmart at pure.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darrell Shandrow" <nu7i at speakeasy.net>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Fwd: Yahoo Petition for Captcha fix

> Hello Joel,
>
> Didn't Craig's List ultimately put in an audio CAPTCHA?  If not, has
anyone
> written them directly?  Yes.  Let's get this Yahoo! thing wrapped up then
go
> after Craig's...  :)
>
> Please visit http://BlindWebAccess.com and sign the petition asking Yahoo!
> to make their CAPTCHA accessible!
> 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
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 4:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Fwd: Yahoo Petition for Captcha fix
>
>
> 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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