[gui-talk] will Webvisum be rendered useless?

[Mike Freeman]

Realistically, I think it would take at least five employees so the cost would be more like $85 a year for each subscriber. While this isn't exorbitant, people are more likely to pay for several steak dinners or many beers than they are to pay for such subscription costs; at least it often seems like it.

Mike

On Jun 27, 2011, at 13:35, Nadia Cioffi <blindhelpfultech at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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