[gui-talk] Looking for instructions forunderstandingFacebooknonvisually

[Gerald Levy]

Trying to solve audio captchas is just a frustrating waste of time.  Instead 
of struggling to solve audio captchas, you can try Solona, the free service 
that uses real live human operators to decode image captchas.  Solona is now 
even easier to use with the introduction of an automation tool.  Once you 
install this tool, all you have to do is press Shift-Control-S on the page 
that contains the image captcha and  submit the created image file to Solona 
for decoding.  A human operator will decode the captcha and return the 
result to you in text format that you can then copy and paste into the 
appropriate edit field.  Check it out at:

http://www.solona.net/index.php

Gerald
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras at sprynet.com>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Looking for instructions 
forunderstandingFacebooknonvisually


> The captcha is one of the disadvantages of working with Facebook.  Many
> things have changed since the AFB article was written, but their 
> discussion
> of the captcha and the alternative procedure where they send a text 
> message
> to a cell phone of your choosing is still accurate.  Since I haven't gone
> the texting route yet, I get a captcha for almost every friend request I 
> do.
> I don't solve all of their audio captchas on the first try, but I find 
> them
> much easier than some others I have encountered.  Busy corporations can
> certainly be unresponsive sometimes.
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
> Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:57 AM
>> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Looking for instructions for
>> understandingFacebooknonvisually
>>
>> Gerald,
>>
>> Not only is Dave correct about this, but I can provide one more example 
>> of
>> the same thing, which is Amazon. If you know the site, as soon as the 
>> home
>> page opens, Jaws is likely to say something about how, if you're using a
>> screen reader, you might benefit from clicking on this link and going to
>> their sort of mirror site. A lot of screen user people appreciate the
>> simplified site with its low graphics and simplified layout, but Amazon
>> didn't create that site expressly for the convenience of the blind Amazon
>> customer any more than they introduced audio to Kindle for the sake of 
>> the
>> blind. I'm not saying this cynically, and I don't think Dave meant it in
>> that spirit either, or at least not entirely. it's just how it is.
>>
>> The "Facebook team" is pretty much in the dark about blind computer 
>> users.
>> I
>> wrote them for help because for some reason I kept being asked to get 
>> past
>> a
>> CAPTCHA a few times *after* I'd managed to register (it only took me
>> something like 20 minutes to find an "audio challenge" I could make any
>> sense of and type to the system's satisfaction), and that problem was the
>> crux of my request for help.
>>
>> They replied with this sort of standardized (or boilerplate, as I meant 
>> to
>> say) stuff about how to register, changed my pass, this and that, and in
>> order to get going I had to sort of overcome their helpful tampering. Not
>> once did they mention CAPTCHA technology in their reply. it all has 
>> worked
>> out, so maybe I was never truly logged in and that's why, every time I
>> tried
>> to friend somebody, I got presented with that damn roadblock. But I don't
>> think that was it. If it was, they didn't even bother to say so. They 
>> just
>> went right to the registration issue without a reference to what I'd 
>> asked
>> about. Duh. I'm not surprised that no one from the Facebook Team is
>> playing
>> in the All Star Game this summer. Sorry. Just feeling sarcastic about
>> anyone
>> who replies to me in writing online without sounding actually responsive
>> to
>> what I've written to them. That drives me completely nutty. I mean it 
>> both
>> befuddles and offends me.
>>
>> anyway, so much for the so-called "blind" Facebook site, okay? But it's
>> got
>> its uses, I can see that.
>
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