[gui-talk] Could Webvisum Finally Be Gone for Good?

[Gerald Levy]

Did you just try it?  I don't understand how it could work for you if it no 
longer exists. There is absolutely nothing related toWebvisum anymore on its 
home page.

Gerald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Moore" <don.moore48 at comcast.net>
To: "Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List" 
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Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Could Webvisum Finally Be Gone for Good?


> Does it support those old versions of Firefox?  Using the more current
> version it seems to work fine.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited at verizon.net>
> To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 2:39 PM
> Subject: [gui-talk] Could Webvisum Finally Be Gone for Good?
>
>
>
>
> This morning, when I launched Firefox 3.6, instead of the familiar "Alert,
> you are logged on to Webvisum" welcome message, I got a server connection
> error. So I visited a web page that contains an image captcha, but when I
> attempted to submit it to Webvisum for decoding by pressing
> Alt-Control-numrow 6, nothing happened. And the solve captcha option was 
> not
> available on the context menu either. I visited www.webvisum.com, and was
> dismayed by the following message:
>
>
> NOTICE: This domain name expired on 06/19/2012 and is pending renewal or
> deletion.
>
> This web page is parked FREE, courtesy of GoDaddy.com
>
>
>
> I don't know much about Go Daddy, but I think it is a web hosting service.
> From the message, it sounds like Webvisum's domain name expired yesterday,
> and the Webvisum site is apparently gone. I certainly hope that this isn't
> the case, and that this is just a temporary glitch.  But Blind Cool Tech
> guru Rick Harmon, who is much more knowledgable about these things than 
> me,
> believes that it may finally be gone for good.   If this is indeed the 
> case,
> are we going to be forced to rely on sighted help from now on to solve 
> image
> captchas?  Is there anything the blind advocacy groups can do?  Can anyone
> shed some light on what's up with Webvisum? Thanks.
>
>    Gerald
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