I don't think it would make any difference how many of us complained to this
organization. It has its own self-serving agenda, which often runs contrary
to the best interests of most blind folks.
Gerald
-----Original Message-----
From: Mario
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 12:05 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What is the issue with Captchas?
if enough blind users complain.
On 1/6/2016 11:30 AM, Maria Campbell wrote:
The only way might be for the NFB to sue, as they did Target.
On 1/6/2016 10:23 AM, Gerald Levy wrote:
And suppose an online seller like Amazon does not offer an accessible
alternative to image captcha? Is Jeff Bezos going to be prosecuted? Of
course not. So major online sellers can simply disregard legal
agreements with almost total impunity and get away with it because they
are essentially weak and unenforceable.
Gerald
-----Original Message----- From: Adrian Spratt
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 10:55 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What is the issue with Captchas?
Actually, I've read some legal agreements involving online sellers that
address the CAPTCHA issue and require an accessible alternative in the
event the company insists on retaining CAPTCHA. I wish I could go into
more detail, but the agreements with which I'm familiar are confidential.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Levy [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 9:35 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What is the issue with Captchas?
And the reason this situation exists in the first place is that the
blindness advocacy groups which are supposed to look out for our best
interests have shown absolutely no willingness to challenge online
sellers
who insist on confronting their customers, blind and sighted alike, with
image captchas whose value at thwarting hackers is dubious at best.
Gerald
-----Original Message----- From: judith bron
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 9:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What is the issue with Captchas?
And the only people excluded from making the statement they're human by
identifying a captia are the blind. Sounds like a totally messed up
system
but we're still captive.
-----Original Message-----
From: Cindy Ray [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 8:42 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What is the issue with Captchas?
No, it isn't proof enough maybe, but it is one of the stones to barriers.
There is no such thing as 100% safe.
Cindy
-----Original Message-----
From: judith bron [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 7:36 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What is the issue with Captchas?
I have been following this thread and still the question I have about
captias for ages is still not answered. We have criminal minds who spend
their time messing up people's lives by hacking their information via
their
on line accounts and stealing their identity. We have folks who steal
people's address books and try to extort money from their family and
friends. We are supposed to recognize an image so we can prove we're
human
and not robots. What can someone sitting on the other end of a
computer in
srilanka know about my status as a human being if I can tell him what
some
captia reads? If they would create the captias so we could read them
back
character by character problem solved, but that isn't proof enough that
we're not devious. Judith
-----Original Message-----
From: Kane Brolin [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2016 8:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What is the issue with Captchas?
It will be a while before CAPTCHAs are stopped. This might happen, once
compatibility with mobile browsing becomes a universal standard.
But the provider of online info related to my Visa card, for example,
requires me to verify a CAPTCHA every time I sign in. Not just to change
account settings or to do some other specialized or sensitive
task--just to
log in to check my points!
The muddy/hard-to-understand nature of the audio CAPTCHA is the whole
point.
They want something that requires subjective, human perception to
understand--not just a clear voice-print that dictation software could
translate automatically into text in the way that Grasshopper does with a
voicemail message.
-Kane
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