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

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Mike and everyone,

    This is very true as some captcha utilities give you a limited time to 
enter the characters. This is true of Web site and application captchas. I 
came across one such beast in a software package a few weeks ago.

Peter Donahue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "Discussion of the Graphical User Interface,GUI Talk Mailing List" 
<gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 11:42 AM
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
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> gui-talk mailing list
>>> gui-talk at nfbnet.org
>>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/gui-talk_nfbnet.org
>>> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
>>> gui-talk:
>>>
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/gui-talk_nfbnet.org/pdonahue2%40satx.rr.co
>> m
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> gui-talk mailing list
>>> gui-talk at nfbnet.org
>>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/gui-talk_nfbnet.org
>>> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
>>> gui-talk:
>>>
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/gui-talk_nfbnet.org/bwaylimited%40verizon.
>> net
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> gui-talk mailing list
>> gui-talk at nfbnet.org
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/gui-talk_nfbnet.org
>> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
>> gui-talk:
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/gui-talk_nfbnet.org/hawkeye%40cox.net
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> gui-talk mailing list
>> gui-talk at nfbnet.org
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/gui-talk_nfbnet.org
>> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
>> gui-talk:
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/gui-talk_nfbnet.org/bwaylimited%40verizon.net
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> gui-talk mailing list
> gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/gui-talk_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
> gui-talk:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/gui-talk_nfbnet.org/k7uij%40panix.com

_______________________________________________
gui-talk mailing list
gui-talk at nfbnet.org
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/gui-talk_nfbnet.org
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
gui-talk:
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/gui-talk_nfbnet.org/pdonahue2%40satx.rr.com