How effective are suits? We still don't have tactile currency. We spent
lots of money, most blind people can well not afford to cause the treasury
to make the currency tactily accessible. It isn't yet accessible. So, if
suits are to take place. How long will it take for the positive effects to
occur.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy Ray" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: What is the issue with Captchas?
Well, of course the NFB picketed Amazon over Kindle's issues, and some of
that effort led to accessibility in the iPhone App, which isn't enough. I
don't doubt that this day might come sometime, but money and time are
required. That investment was good with regard to Target, and maybe one day
the same can be said of Amazon.
Cindy
-----Original Message-----
From: Maria Campbell [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 10:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What is the issue with Captchas?
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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