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

[Gerald Levy]

You have a good point.  Submitting outdated captchas could be a real 
problem.  And I bet ZCaptcha still deduct 21 cents from your account even if 
the captcha isn't successfully decoded or it otherwise doesn't work.

Gerald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List" 
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Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] New Captcha-Solving Service for Blind Computer Users


> 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
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "hawkeye" <hawkeye at cox.net>
>> To: "'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List'" 
>> <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 10:48 AM
>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] New Captcha-Solving Service for Blind Computer 
>> Users
>>
>>
>>> 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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