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

Thu Jun 21 12:53:08 UTC 2012

Hi, fwiw, Firefox is good to use regardless of webvisum. It runs much 
better than Internet Explorer, crashes less, and doesn't take up as many 
resources. All that being said, the topic is about Webvisum, which some 
didn't use all the time. Audio captchas, if available are not too bad, 
and if all else fails. Get sighted help. I know you have already stated 
your views on that, but unfortunately it's reality;. If you want to not 
use a person to help you read captchas or you don't have available an 
audio alternative, then write the web sites who present these 
inaccessible captchas and try to get them to understand than an 
accessible form of verification is needed. For example, a random 
question like the sum of 5 and 3, which changes every time, might work. 
Or, what color is the red apple? These have been known to work as well.

Good luck in your efforts.

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On 6/20/2012 4:17 PM, Gerald Levy wrote:
>
> Yeah, if it weren't for Webvisum, I wouldn't have wasted my time with
> Firefox.  I was getting pretty sick and tired of trying to keep up with
> each new release.  So now what?  Anybody have any good ideas about how
> to solve image captchas without sighted help?  Please don't tell me to
> try the audio captcha alternative, because most of the time it either
> doesn't work or it is impossible to understand.
>
> 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 3:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Could Webvisum Finally Be Gone for Good?
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>
>> Actually the web page is gone effective today too.  Sorry about the
>> earlier
>> post.  Too bad.  It's the only reason I have Firefox on my computer along
>> with IE.
>>
>>
>> ----- 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: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 3:30 PM
>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Could Webvisum Finally Be Gone for Good?
>>
>>
>> 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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