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

[Gerald Levy]

Peter, I have to agree with you.  I am very leery about this service.  Aside 
from the fact that a captcha submitted for decoding might be outdated by the 
time you receive the result, there is no contact information anywhere on the 
Azavia site.  So if you encounter any trouble, what recourse do you have? 
As a rule, I never deal with a paid product or service whose web site does 
not provide contact information. They can just take your money and run.

Gerald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue2 at satx.rr.com>
To: "Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List" 
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Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] New Captcha-Solving Service for Blind Computer Users


> Hello everyone,
>
>    And when they go to solve the captcha the characters will have changed.
> They'll send you back the solved captcha and if you must enter them 
> yourself
> guess what. You'll find yourself starting over from square one and be out 
> a
> few cence. I can't decide if this is a captcha solving service or a scam 
> to
> rip off blind computer users. If the latter proves to be true it's a 
> bigger
> club to hit Web developers and screen reader vendors over the head with to
> get them to eliminate this barrier for us. This captcha solving scheme
> smells too much like rotten fish to me.
>
> Peter Donahue
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited at verizon.net>
> To: "Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List"
> <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 10:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] New Captcha-Solving Service for Blind Computer 
> Users
>
>
>
> 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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