[gui-talk] will Webvisum be rendered useless?

Mon Jun 27 19:07:19 UTC 2011

As far as I know, Webvisim has been pretty careful not to say how they solve CAPTCHAs, but Solona used human beings.

On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:24:25 -0700, hawkeye wrote:

>If that was true about the screen reader developers, how did webvisun do it?

>-----Original Message-----
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>Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
>Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 11:08 AM
>To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface,GUI Talk Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] will Webvisum be rendered useless?

>Hi,

>If the screen reader developers could solve CAPTCHAs, so could spammers.  To
>solve a CAPTCHA would require some kind of Optical character recognition,
>but CAPTCHAs are displayed to make this more difficult.  OCR is more a
>process familiar to Kurzweil than screen reader technology.  This just isn't
>a simple problem.

>Best regards,

>Steve Jacobson

>On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:46:58 -0400, Gerald Levy wrote:

>>The real problem is that the major screen reader companies, FS and GW 
>>Micro, have so far shown absolutely no interest in adding captcha 
>>solving capabilities to JAWS and Window Eyes, respectively.  This 
>>should certainly be technically feasible.

>>Gerald

>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
>>To: "Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List" 
>><gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 11:50 AM
>>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] will Webvisum be rendered useless?

>>> Not enough money; not enough personnel. I also heard a rumor that the 
>>> person operating it has been ill.
>>>
>>> If you ask me, *any* service dependent upon human interaction is bound to

>>> be less-than-reliable at best.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> On Jun 27, 2011, at 6:20, Tai Blas <Tai.Blas at blind.state.ia.us> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What is going on with Solona? Every time I try to use it, I am unable
>to.
>>>> Tai
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> See what your state government is accomplishing at 
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>On 
>>>> Behalf Of Gerald Levy
>>>> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 3:03 PM
>>>> To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
>>>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] will Webvisum be rendered useless?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This could become a serious problem.  At some point, the software 
>>>> developers at Webvisum will simply give up trying to keep up with each 
>>>> new release of Firefox.  And because Solona is already on life support, 
>>>> there soon may be no captcha solving solutions left.  I suggest hanging 
>>>> onto Firefox 4 or earlier as long as you can.  Besides, the screen 
>>>> readers won't be able to keep up with each new Firefox release, either.
>>>>
>>>> Gerald
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Ken lawrence" <kenlawrence124 at aol.com>
>>>> To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 5:21 PM
>>>> Subject: [gui-talk] will Webvisum be rendered useless?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Ken here.  I read in Kim Komando's email that firefox has started a 
>>>>> new
>>>>> schedule they will be new versions of the browser every too months.  I
>>>>> just got the update automaticly today and they are recommending you
>>>>> install it since no more updates will be made for version 4.  So in two
>>>>> months for example version 6 or maybe 5 point something or other.
>>>>> Webvisum has been disabled since it isn't updated.  the firefox browser
>>>>> says it will enable it if it has an update.  But can webvisum possible
>>>>> keep up with a two months schedule?  is our capcha solver useless
>thanks
>>>>> to this new timetable by firefox?
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