[gui-talk] Is Webvisum Dead?

[Jude DaShiell]

The service was down earlier though since there were messages on this 
identical issue on blindmozilla email list on yahoogroups.com.

On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Gerald Levy wrote:

> 
> Hurray!  Webvisum is working again!  It's still alive and well, after all. I
> just tried it myself, and it works like normal.
> 
> Gerald
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Humberto Avila"
> <avila.bert.humberto2 at gmail.com>
> To: "'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List'"
> <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 2:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Is Webvisum Dead?
> 
> 
> > 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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