[gui-talk] Is Webvisum Dead?

[Jude DaShiell]

The only thing you are logged into webvisum properly tells you is that 
your computer is connected to the internet connection expected by the 
add-on.  It in no way confirms that the service remains active.  In 
order to do that, you've got to try solving a captcha with it and see 
what does or doesn't happen.

On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Humberto Avila wrote:

> Well...thanks goodness that web visum is not dead! Immediately after reading
> your message, I used Internet explorer and firefox to test www.webvisum.com.
> In Internet explorer, I got the web page loaded correctly and without
> problems, and in firefox, not only was the web page loaded like nothing
> happened at all, but I was able to get the message "Alert you are logged
> into webVisum. Close this message." 
> So I'm glad for god's sake that this service isn't dead; you were scaring me
> like crazy, because before relying on webvisum, I used Solona as well for
> solving captchas on the web. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Gerald Levy
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 11:39 AM
> To: gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [gui-talk] Is Webvisum Dead?
> 
> 
> This morning, I attempted to solve an image captcha using Webvisum with
> Firefox 3.6, but got a 502 gateway time out error message instead.  And
> attempting to access webvisum.com using IE 8, I also got a 504 gateway time
> out error.  Does anyone know what's going on with Webvisum?  Hopefully, this
> is only a temporary problem that will shortly be fixed.  On the other hand,
> it is also possible that the developers of Webvisum grew tired of trying to
> keep up with the constant flurry of new Firefox releases and decided to
> throw in the towel.  And there is apparently no way to contact them to find
> out what's going on.  If Webvisum is dead, there is no longer any way for us
> blind computer users to solve image captchas without sighted help because
> Solona is also dead.  This is a real bummer.
> 
> Gerald 
> 
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