[gui-talk] will Webvisum be rendered useless?

[Mike Freeman]

IMO it would be extremely difficult to keep such a system economically viable.

Mike

On Jun 27, 2011, at 12:34, "Cowle, Jodi" <JCowle at cityofmadison.com> wrote:

> A good idea, and that would give people more jobs.
> 
> Jodi
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dave Marthouse
> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 2:17 PM
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> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] will Webvisum be rendered useless?
> 
>        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
> 
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