[gui-talk] will Webvisum be rendered useless?

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Gerald and everyone,

    Perhaps if screen reader users pressed their product developers to 
address this issue something would happen. I saw the demise of WevVism and 
Silona long ago. So much for relying on third parties to solve captchas for 
you. Taking the user interaction out of the bot protection equation will go 
a long way to resolving the accessibility issues these things have created 
for the blind and deaf-blind. The ColdFusion Community is to be given credit 
for taking a major step in eliminating the accessibility issues posed by 
captchas on Web pages with the development of CFForm Protect. As I said 
before we need to find out if there are similar solutions for other Web 
languages, frameworks, and environments and promote their use instead of 
captchas.

Peter Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited at verizon.net>
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Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] will Webvisum be rendered useless?



The real problem is that the major screen reader companies, FS and GW Micro,
have so far shown absolutely no interest in adding captcha solving
capabilities to JAWS and Window Eyes, respectively.  This should certainly
be technically feasible.


Gerald



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
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Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] will Webvisum be rendered useless?


> Not enough money; not enough personnel. I also heard a rumor that the
> person operating it has been ill.
>
> If you ask me, *any* service dependent upon human interaction is bound to
> be less-than-reliable at best.
>
> Mike
>
> On Jun 27, 2011, at 6:20, Tai Blas <Tai.Blas at blind.state.ia.us> wrote:
>
>> What is going on with Solona? Every time I try to use it, I am unable to.
>> Tai
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> See what your state government is accomplishing at
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>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Gerald Levy
>> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 3:03 PM
>> To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] will Webvisum be rendered useless?
>>
>>
>> This could become a serious problem.  At some point, the software
>> developers at Webvisum will simply give up trying to keep up with each
>> new release of Firefox.  And because Solona is already on life support,
>> there soon may be no captcha solving solutions left.  I suggest hanging
>> onto Firefox 4 or earlier as long as you can.  Besides, the screen
>> readers won't be able to keep up with each new Firefox release, either.
>>
>> Gerald
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ken lawrence" <kenlawrence124 at aol.com>
>> To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 5:21 PM
>> Subject: [gui-talk] will Webvisum be rendered useless?
>>
>>
>>> Hi Ken here.  I read in Kim Komando's email that firefox has started a
>>> new
>>> schedule they will be new versions of the browser every too months.  I
>>> just got the update automaticly today and they are recommending you
>>> install it since no more updates will be made for version 4.  So in two
>>> months for example version 6 or maybe 5 point something or other.
>>> Webvisum has been disabled since it isn't updated.  the firefox browser
>>> says it will enable it if it has an update.  But can webvisum possible
>>> keep up with a two months schedule?  is our capcha solver useless thanks
>>> to this new timetable by firefox?
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