[gui-talk] will Webvisum be rendered useless?

[Nadia Cioffi]

So there are staff doing the camtas 24/7? I missed like half of this chat

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:

> 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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