[gui-talk] New Captcha-Solving Service for Blind Computer Users

[Mike Freeman]

By the time you get the image and upload it, it sounds to me like it will have become out -of date! 

Mike 

On Sep 13, 2012, at 8:54, "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited at verizon.net> wrote:

> 
> Actually, the site provides detailed instructions on how to create an image file of the captcha that can be submitted for decoding.  Basically, you focus on the web page that contains the captcha you want to solve, navigate to the captcha, take a screen shot using the Print Screen key to save it on the clipboard, paste the image into MS Paint or other such program and save this image as a file where it can be easily retrieved.  You then log onto ZCaptcha, locate the file you have just created and upload it to ZCaptcha where a network of human operators is presumably standing by to solve it and return the result to you in a few minutes.  Each time you submit a captcha, 21 cents is deducted from your ZCaptcha account .  Before you submit your first captcha, you must register with ZCaptcha and add at least $5 to your account using Paypal.  Sounds like a paid version of Solona.
> 
> Gerald
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "hawkeye" <hawkeye at cox.net>
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> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 10:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] New Captcha-Solving Service for Blind Computer Users
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> 
>> The site does not explain how the screen shot is to be done.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Gerald Levy
>> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 7:43 AM
>> To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] New Captcha-Solving Service for Blind Computer Users
>> 
>> 
>> I understand your position on image captchas.  But they are so widely used
>> and so firmly entrenched in the psyches of web developers that they will
>> probably never be completely replaced by a more blind-friendly alternative.
>> At least ZCaptcha offers an reasonable alternative to Webvisum with Firefox
>> that can be used with any browser.  Hopefully, they will be more successfull
>> than Solona.
>> 
>> Gerald
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue2 at satx.rr.com>
>> To: "Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List"
>> <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 10:13 AM
>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] New Captcha-Solving Service for Blind Computer Users
>> 
>> 
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>>   Thanks but no thanks.
>>> 
>>> Peter Donahue
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited at verizon.net>
>>> To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 7:07 AM
>>> Subject: [gui-talk] New Captcha-Solving Service for Blind Computer Users
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> A new captcha solving service designed expressly for blind computer users
>>> has just been launched.  Called ZCaptcha, it sounds similar to the defunct
>>> Solona captcha-solving service whereby captchas are decoded by sighted
>>> human
>>> operators submitted to them by blind users.  There is a nominal fee of 21
>>> cents per captcha, and the service apparently works with all browsers.
>>> For
>>> more information:
>>> 
>>> http://www.azavia.com/zcaptcha
>>> 
>>> Gerald
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