[gui-talk] Fwd: Captchakiller.com

[ryan perdue]

Mike, why would it be an honorable thing?
Sometimes, it's easy to feel like you're getting in someone's way, that 
would make it worse.
Accessibility is a right and we need to be able to live independently as 
much as possible.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darrell Shandrow" <darrell.shandrow at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 2:11 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Fwd: Captchakiller.com


> Hello Mike,
>
> I see you trotting out this "sighted reader" argument quite often.  That's
> all fine and good, but...
>
> Why should there be screen readers and other assistive technologies for 
> the
> blind?  Couldn't one just avail themselves of a sighted reader?
>
> Why should there be accessible voting?  Why should the election officials
> have to help us vote?  Shouldn't we all be required to bring our trusty
> sighted reader with us?
>
> Why should anyone purchase a K-NFB reader when they can plunk even more
> money down over their lifetime to hire the services of a more reliable
> sighted reader?
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 8:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Fwd: Captchakiller.com
>
>
> Now waaaait a minute here.
>
> I agree that the site is progress. But using sighted readers is an
> honorable thing!
>
> Mike
>
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Sherri
>  To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
>  Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 8:06 PM
>  Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Fwd: Captchakiller.com
>
>
>  Hey, anything's better than having to wait for a sighted person!
> Thanks.
>  I'll give it a try.
>  ----- 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>
>  Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 10:44 PM
>  Subject: [gui-talk] Fwd: Captchakiller.com
>
>
>  Sent: Sunday, 9 March 2008 9:33 AM
>
>  Today, I heard about this site on another list, and I love it.  If you
>  ever
>  need to use a site that requires captchas,
>  you will to.  The url is
>
>  www.captchakiller.com
>
>  The first thing you will have to do is sign up for an account.  On the
>  home
>  page, they have a lot of forum posts and
>  comments, but if you look for the crate an account link, you should
> have
>  no
>  problems at all.
>
>  Once you have an account, you can upload those bothersome captchas,
> and
>  the
>  site will process them for you.
>
>  I had a little trouble at first, but once you realize what they want,
>  it's
>  fairly straight forward.
>
>  I'll give you the step by step instructions.
>  1.  go to the site that has the captcha.
>  2. find the exact page that has the captcha, and copy the url that's
> in
>  the
>  address bar.
>  3.  find the captcha on the page, and right click on it.
>  4.  choose the save picture as option and save it to your hard drive.
>  5.  on the captchakiller site, choose the upload captcha link.
>  6.  paste the page url into the url field.
>  7. hit the browse button on the page, and browse to the file you saved
>  on
>  your computer.
>  8.  after hitting open on the file, hit the submit button on the page.
>  9.  then choose the view captchas link on the page, and find the most
>  recently uploaded one.  It should be the one at
>  the top.
>  10 when you go through the table you'll result, and beside that is
> what
>  you
>  have to type in for the captcha.
>
>  This may sound a little complex, but it isn't so bad once you get used
>  to
>  doing it.  I'm not saying it's a solution to
>  all our captcha problems, but it sure beats getting sighted help every
>  time
>  you need a captcha interpreted.
>
>  Another helpful hint I can give you, is to keep the captchakiller
> site,
>  and
>  the site you want the captcha for, opened at
>  the same time.  That way, you can get the captcha processed quickly
> and
>  enter it on the site before it expires.
>
>  Hopefully, some people will find this site useful.
>  --------
>  Earle
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>
>  Regards Steve
>  Email:  srp at internode.on.net
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