[gui-talk] will Webvisum be rendered useless?

[Dave Marthouse]

        Just my two cents worth here but if third party solutions for
solving this problem exist that depend on human volunteers there will always
be problems from time to time.

I don't know if such a service is viable but what about some kind of
subscription service that will pay people to sit and solve captias at least
during regular business hours.  Let's say a site that is on-line from 9 till
5 every business day that pays the captia solver minimum wage.  That would
cost $16,000 a year.  That's 1,000 subscriptions at $16 a year.  Let's add
#3,000 for a cushion.  That makes it a subscription of around #20 a year per
user.

Even though the blind community isn't the most prosperous in the world taken
as a hole a $20 a year fey is a little more than a cost of a steak dinner.

This isn't a perfect answer and what I've outlined above isn't a long-term
solution but it is at least a possible stop gap measure till some kind of
permanent solution can be put into place.


Dave Marthouse
dmarthouse at gmail.com