Good evening everyone,
I encountered a captcha like this on another Website but can’t
remember what it was. Glad someone came to their senses and figured out a
simple solution to the issues we’ve had with captchas. This system is usable by
both blind and deafblind computer users. This is not true of audio captchas.
Even people with normal hearing such as my wife have trouble understanding
those audio captchas.
Peter Donahue
From: Brad Martin [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2016 10:58 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: A Win Against Captchas; I'll take it
A couple of years ago we had a discussion on this list about tax preparation
software that was accessible. At the time, I recommended MyFreeTaxes.com as
basically accessible, with the exception of a captcha at the end and a few
flakey buttons here and there. Then last year, my colleagues at United Way
Worldwide heard me, and pushed the software provider to do something about it,
and we got an audio captcha. That might have actually happened two years ago.
Anyway, fast forward to this year. Tonight I filed my taxes using
MyFreeTaxes.com. There was a "captcha" frame, but interestingly, it didn't have
a captcha. It had a checkbox I had to check (with the space bar as usual) that
said something like, "I'm not a robot." It seems like I've seen this once or
twice before, but it makes you wonder why more companies don't use it.
I must say I was happy with the solution, which served my purposes, cost me
nothing, and was 100% accessible with JAWS 15, Firefox and Windows 7. In
previous years, I think I eventually had to switch to Internet Explorer to
finish the job for some reason or another, but not this year. Indeed this was
the smoothest experience I have had using MyFreeTaxes, and this is my fourth
year to use it.
For those who need to know, the income limit is $62,000 this year, and it
really is a smooth experience from start to finish with JAWS. How often can we
say that?
Hope this helps you.
Brad
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