Hi Dark, Well, I never said that sighted assistance is always available, not even for me, but I wanted to make the point that sometimes its the only solution to a problem like solving a captcha where Webvisum fails to work and the audio captcha is inaudible.
As far as Firefox goes we will just have to agree to disagree on that subject. As I said before I don't know why it crashes and runs so poorly on your machine, but it is not been my experience. I have Firefox 19 running on three different computers, one of them Linux, and the other two running Windows 7 and it rarely crashes if ever. So the stability issues sounds to me to be something local to your computer or OS. In either case your experience isn't the norm for most people otherwise Firefox wouldn't be consistently rated the number one web browser world wide. Regarding Google I don't know if they test their audio captchas or not. However, its obvious they haven't tried to many of them because it is nearly impossible to hear what it is saying even for people with perfect hearing. I unfortunately have some minor hearing loss and it sounds really garbled to me, and despite trying to complain Google does nothing about it. So I do agree they need to be taken to task over their captcha accessibility. Especially, since many websites and games are now using Google as the standard for captcha technology. On 4/8/13, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > Sighted assistance isn't always available, indeed I'd have to pay someone > for that sort of thing myself. > > Firefox as I said I just don't wrate at all since it just seems unstable and > > badly designed to me given how much it crashes. > > I've tried the solona website which was supposed to have people solve > captures by sending a screen shot, but whenever I sent one the person on the > > other end of the site sent a message back saying there was no capture on the > > screen and even threatened to ban my account, so that seemed no good. > > Really I hold google to blaime very much for captures, since up until > recently their sound captures were quite a good accessible alternative, and > > one which lots of devs used or which a dev who had an inaccessible capture > could be pointed to, but it's pretty clear from the way their desitned that > > nobody actually ever tried! to solve the captures just with the audio, > making them basically a tocan gesture, which in a way is worse than no > access at all since now lots of devs employ them thinking they've got an > accessible alternative, when they haven't. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
