[gui-talk] More On Captcha Be Gone

[Rose Combs]

Did you ever stop to think that some of us may wish to support a blind developer just for considering what has been an issue for more than 10 years, that of inaccessible CAPTCHAs on multiple, multiple websites.  Not saying I am doing this, but, if someone is willing to take on the challenge that seems to have always been performed for one platform or another privately, not by Microsoft, Google, Apple, large companies that should in my opinion take this into consideration, then if one wishes to pay a bit more to support further development of said program and other programs, then it is their right not to be condemned for it.  You usually get what you pay for in my opinion.  

I hate CAPTCHA and for the most part unless given absolutely no choice at all I avoid websites that employ it, if they want my business they will make it so I can get to where I need to be.  However, in the past 20 months I have had occasion to need to solve one, and had to wait until someone was here to do so.  More than annoying, and in my opinion having to wait at all to solve one is unacceptable.  


Rose Combs
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Here’s more about Captcha Be Gone.  The most recent edition of the Blind Bargains podcast, podcast 51, features an interview with the creator of Captcha Be Gone, which is supposed to be anew and superior  image solving captcha alternative to Webvisum and Rumola.  The creator, who also created Chicken Nuggets, is the owner of Accessible Apps, which specializes in creating accessible solutions for blind computer users.  He demonstrated Captcha Be Gone, which, of course worked flawlessly for the purposes of this demo and promised  that it would be introduced in early March at a cost of $3.50 a month for unlimited usage.  But at $36 a year, it is difficult to imagine that Captcha Be Gone will attract enough customers to keep it viable over the long run when Rumola, at only 99 cents a year is a much cheaper alternative that probably works just as well for most users in comparable situations.  And Webvisum, which will be permenantly disabled  starting with Firefox 45, still works with earlier versions and is free.  And he let it slip that Captcha Be Gone has “humans in the loop”, which means that it operates in a manner very similar, if not identical to, Rumola, which also relies on humans to solve captchas.  I really don’t understand what this guy is thinking.  I can’t see many blind computer users rushing to sign up for Captcha Be Gone unless they are in a work environment and need to solve dozens and dozens of image captchas every month.  The majority of blind computer users encounter captchas on an infrequent basis, and for them, Rumola is probably perfectly adequate for their needs.  If you want to listen to the interview yourself, check out Blind Bargains Cast 51:

http://www.blindbargains.com/bargains.php?m=14804


Gerald 

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