[gui-talk] {Disarmed} Re: Could Webvisum Finally Be Gone for Good?

[Ray Foret Jr]

Well, here's part of the text I got when I tried:

www.webvisum.com
NOTICE: This domain name expired on 06/19/2012 and is pending renewal or deletion.

webvisum.com

Is this your domain?
Renew Now


Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!

Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!

Sure seems like it bit the dust to me.


Skype name:
barefootedray

On Jun 20, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Humberto Avila wrote:

> I'm not happy with what has been said here. If the Webvisum developers are
> tired of seeing new releases for firefox browser and trying to keep up with
> those new releases, then they were tired and they did not want to support
> Webvisum anymore. If this is the case, then I am assuming some bad and
> nonsense pattern I'm seeing with blindness web developers. Look, what
> happened to quitter, the quitters that developed quitter finally quit
> because they decided that they couldn't keep up with demands and questions
> criticizing them. The developers at www.solona.net also gave up their site
> because well, I'm not sure this is approved, but the site administrator that
> did the page was ill and couldn't keep up anymore. Now Webvisum is next in
> line? Is it their turn to quit? Wow! And the bad thing about this is that
> they don't even have a notification system and produce a notice! If this is
> to happen really, they should've posted some sort of notice under their news
> section or events section, whatever that is, on their web site. Again, I
> really really really hope this doesn't happen!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Gerald Levy
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 12:09 PM
> To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Could Webvisum Finally Be Gone for Good?
> 
> 
> 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" 
> <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> 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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