[gui-talk] will Webvisum be rendered useless?

[Nadia Cioffi]

It better not be redemed usless It's the only way I can "read" CAPTIONAWS"
there are vice things. but they make it almust inposable to undertand.

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Dave Marthouse <dmarthouse at gmail.com>wrote:

>        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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