Re: Google capchas
I realized that after writing that message, duh. In that case, the best captcha is no captcha at all.
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Re: Windows 10 update question
Try using the media creation tool to download the ISO file, then burn the ISO to a disc, the run the setup from there and when asked, tell it to upgrade the system.
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Re: movie vault mirror
@sebbyIf you don't get your movies and shows in time and st.mc's mirror doesn't have their links, give me a shout and I'll get the download links for you.
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Re: movie vault mirror
@GrryfindoreHas you or anyone else who's had trouble accessing the vault ever bother to contact them to find out why. I mean if the moderators of the vault don't ever hear about access problems, how are they to know there is one.@MSlionI don't know about Breaking Bad
Re: movie vault mirror
The Sendspace accounts the Vault uses are paid accounts. Each account is allotted a certain amount of bandwidth each month. Downloads through a pro link count against your allotted bandwidth so, if there are enough downloads, you could incur additional bandwidth
Re: movie vault mirror
The Sendspace accounts the Vault uses are paid accounts. Each account is allotted a certain amount of bandwidth each month. Downloads through a pro link count against your allotted bandwidth so, if there are enough downloads, you could incur additional bandwidth
Re: Google capchas
Yeah, the ones with background noise could be gotten with some careful listening, but the ones with garbled voices were just as bad if not worse than the video captcha.If you really feel the need for a captcha, the best approach I've seen is a text captcha that can only
Re: Google capchas
I think audio captchas should be a text question that you have to answer, it becomes audio when your screen reader reads the question.
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Re: Google capchas
I would use Be My Eyes or Be Specular over TapTapSee for help with captcha solving mainly because you get such mixed results with TapTapSee, where you can ask a specific question with the other two apps, and they are all free.I hate audio captchas and just ignore them
Re: Google capchas
I would use Be My Eyes or Be Specular over TapTapSee for help with captcha solving mainly because you get such mixed results with TapTapSee, where you can ask a specific question with the other two apps, and they are all free.I hate audio captchas and just ignore them
Re: movie vault mirror
@GrryfindoreHas you or anyone else who's had trouble accessing the vault ever bother to contact them to find out why. I mean if the moderators of the vault don't ever hear about access problems, how are they to know there is one.@MSlionI don't know about Breaking Bad
Re: movie vault mirror
If I understand Sendspace correctly, a Pro link is a direct download without having to land on a Sendspace page first, and only paid accounts generate them. I have no idea why the vault isn't using them, it's possible they aren't using paid Sendspace accounts, I'm
Re: Google capchas
Yeah, I've encountered situations where error or other extraneous messages hide or make a mess of the text I'm interested in. It really gets challenging if the messages are displayed in a way that's invisible to the screen reader, then you have no idea why what your
Re: Google capchas
Besides the omnipotent jerk who pestered Picard and his crew, I believe that the Q refered to here is the developer of Captcha Be Gone.I've had Captcha Be Gone sit and do nothing only once and it turned out to be a server problem that was fixed the following day.I also
Re: movie vault mirror
I thought it was fairly clear. The movie vault costs the Blind Mice Mall money and resources. They actively ask for donations to help keep the vault alive. I support them by shopping at the mall and donating descriptive audio tracks I have acquired at my own expense
Re: Google capchas
@JackYup! And at less than $40 per year it's not like it's going to break the bank.@DarkCaptcha Be Gone is a browser add on that solves captchas. They have versions for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and I believe Chrome.https://captchabegone.com/
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Re: movie vault mirror
I help the Blind Mice Mall to build and maintain the Movie Vault by obtaining movies and extracting the descriptive audio tracks, and by shopping at the mall. I would never consider supporting a mirror that is being built by welching off of the Blind Mice Mall's hard
Re: Google capchas
Agreed, especially know that there are systems available to defeat them.Although it isn't free, and I think it should be, I avoid the whole captcha issue by using Captcha Be Gone. It's not often that I need it, but when I do it has always gotten me past the captcha will
Re: movie vault mirror
I usually end up deleting the newsletters because they aren't offering anything I want or need, but every once in a while they'll offer something that tickles my fancy and I'll take them up on their offer.I'm thankful that they don't push it out more often than they
Re: movie vault mirror
I think attempting to make a mirror for the Blind Mice Movie Vault is a waste of time anyway. There are at least two other sites that I know of that has pretty much all the content the Vault has and then some.They may not be as well organized or have descriptions and
Re: can i disable audio games ads?
Ad Block Plus is for Internet Explorer and Firefox.
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Re: can i disable audio games ads?
I'd love a site specific _javascript_ disabler, something like that could be set up to use the noscript part of the page and might make inaccessible or difficult to access pages a lot more accessible. Unfortunately, something like that would have to be
Re: can i disable audio games ads?
I just use the MVPS hosts file from MVPS.org, and I get no ads, and the nice thing about it is that it works with all browsers because it blocks the ads at the TCP/IIP protocol driver. No additional software to slow down your browser is needed, assuming
Re: movie vault mirror
According to all the sources I use, there are several because none are 100% accurate, Speed 2: Cruise Control was never released on DVD or Blue Ray with audio description. So your only hope is if a broadcaster like the BBC or Sky TV decides to have it audio described
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Back in the 70s, every Sunday morning I could be found listening to Kasey Kasum's American Top 40 on the radio. This was a program that counted down the top 40 songs of the week based on record sales and radio air time.Lately, I've found that there are some oldies radio stations
Re: movie vault mirror
Unfortunately, the only way to speed up downloads is to buy a Sendspace Pro account.The vault chose Sendspace over Dropbox because dropbox allows only a limited number of downloads of a specific file before the file is blocked. This isn't a sales strategy as
Re: movie vault mirror
Unfortunately, the only way to speed up downloads is to buy a Sendspace Pro account.The vault chose Sendspace over Dropbox because dropbox allows only a limited number of downloads of a specific file before the file is blocked. This isn't a sales strategy as
Re: movie vault mirror
The Blind Mice Movie Vault is hidden behind a log in for a reason, and that is to prevent the search engines from spidering it. We're certain the motion picture industry watches the search engines looking for sites that distribute their content, so staying out of the
Re: movie vault mirror
@simbaHere you go, the first of the Fast and Furious series.http://www.sendspace.com/file/v4c3ayCourtesy of the Blind Mice Movie Vault
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Re: New app for picture and document recognisation, seeing AI by Microsoft
AS best I can recall, when I hear that it sees a bar code, I stop moving so it can focus on the bar code to read it .My understanding is the higher the pitch the closer it is to a successful read and that its only
Re: New app for picture and document recognisation, seeing AI by Microsoft
From the for what its worth department.After just playing around with this app and then having a chance to use it for real on real world tasks, I predicted to myself that this app would show up in AppleVis' AppleVis
Re: Recommendations: what audio setups are you using?
For day to day use I have a pair of Amazon Basics USB powered speakers, they won't win any awards for audio quality but they do get the job done. I chose USB powered so that the speakers would turn on and off when the computer does.When
Re: Going back to Windows 7, a good or a bad idea?
Not me, by the time Microsoft hit's the big off switch on Windows 7 I'll have moved on to Windows 10. But until that time, why throw out a perfectly good operating system?
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Re: Going back to Windows 7, a good or a bad idea?
As long as Microsoft keeps pushing out security updates for it, I don't think that Windows 7 users are any more at risk than Windows 10 users. It's when update support is dropped in 2020 that it's time to upgrade.
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Re: Going back to Windows 7, a good or a bad idea?
I wonder if it would be possible to lift the Windows Update from Windows 10 Professional and drop it into Windows 10 Home to get back the ability to reject unwanted updates.
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Re: New app for picture and document recognisation, seeing AI by Microsoft
All I have done with this app so far was just fooling around with it so I'd know what to do and expect when it came time to put it to real world use.Today I got that chance when I needed to identify some Boar's Head
Re: Going back to Windows 7, a good or a bad idea?
I would never have upgraded to Windows 10 in the first place. Besides all the spying and screen reader unfriendly apps, Microsoft has taken control of some parts of the computer away from the owners and given it to themselves.For example,
Re: Is there something unusual about Using Audio Games in IEon Windows 10?
@DarkIt's possible somebody told you that, because you are visually impaired, thinking it would help you. But from the time before I lost my sight, the standard has always been no zoom, or normal, or 100%, depending
Re: Is there something unusual about Using Audio Games in IEon Windows 10?
Dark wrote:...just go to the view menu and find the submenu for zoom. Set it to anything else, then set back to %125, which it should be on anyway.125%? I always thought that the default zoom level was 100% or no
Re: Is Audio Games Forum Compatible with IE on Windows 10
This seems to always work, so, try maximizing the window.Other than that, I don't see how a newer version of the same operating system could cause a web site to be incompatible with any particular browser.
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Re: A shocking and depressing news!
Oh yes! The medical profession, don't you just love them? It's always this germ, or that virus, or those genes, or just bad luck. It's never their incompetence, carelessness, stupidity, greed, or just plain old not giving a shit, as long as it's not
Re: A shocking and depressing news!
I don't know about shocking but having to lose parts of your body even though they don't function is always best avoided. Besides being depressing, removing any part of the body, even if it is replaced with a prosthetic, creates a way for infection to
Re: New app for picture and document recognisation, seeing AI by Microsoft
That's utter BS, when I got TapTapSee the download was free and you could use it for about a dozen or pictures, after that you hade to buy a picture pack x pictures for Y dollars or you could buy a subscription that
Re: CodeFactory Eloquence
I'd prefer that the private messages entry in the main menu list alert you to new messages.After being flooded with spam by giving out my actual email address, I will no longer give anyone my actual email address except close personal friends and family.The
Re: CodeFactory Eloquence
I know, it's about the only thing I don't like about this forum software. Thanks for the heads up will go check now.
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Re: New app for picture and document recognisation, seeing AI by Microsoft
@grryfindoreIf you don't mind sending images of documents with personal information to the cloud, that is your choice and maybe your personal privacy isn't a concern for you, but for me, the fact that KNFB Reader is
Re: New app for picture and document recognisation, seeing AI by Microsoft
I think you misunderstood me. Because the OCR function in most OCR based reading apps is done in the cloud, I won't use them on documents that might contain information about myself I'd rather not share with just
Re: New app for picture and document recognisation, seeing AI by Microsoft
I haven't tried bar codes yet but will just out of curiosity, I have an ID Mate Galaxy for those, though this app may be a good stand in for when I don't have the Galaxy with me.But I did have a chance to use it's
Re: New app for picture and document recognisation, seeing AI by Microsoft
I've downloaded this app and played around with it for a short while. How do I know if the app is picking up a bar code or not. I have an iPhone SE , which I'm told is an iPhone 6 in an iPhone 5 case.
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Re: Victor Reader Stream gets a new big brother
Well, I guess a lot of people disagree with you as I've heard that Humanware reported that preorders are coming in fast and furious.
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Re: Victor Reader Stream gets a new big brother
I'll be getting one. Mine was pre ordered before I started this thread.
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Re: New app for picture and document recognisation, seeing AI by Microsoft
CAE_Jones wrote:Orko wrote:You have TapTapSee backwards, it started off as being a paid service but is now free as the company behind it has found other sources of income.Actually, TapTapSee started out free, then
Re: New app for picture and document recognisation, seeing AI by Microsoft
No, it doesn't.
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Re: New app for picture and document recognisation, seeing AI by Microsoft
You have TapTapSee backwards, it started off as being a paid service but is now free as the company behind it has found other sources of income.
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Re: web visum and capcha solving
Another CAPTCHA solver for Internet Explorer and Firefox.
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Re: New app for picture and document recognisation, seeing AI by Microsoft
That wasn't made clear until I went to the linked article. Just like iOS and Android Windows 10 has it's own app store where you can get apps like KNFB Reader for Windows.
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Re: New app for picture and document recognisation, seeing AI by Microsoft
If this app is called Seeing AI as the Geek Wire article says, it's not in the Apple App store yet. I just tried to find it and got pretty much anything but.
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Re: New app for picture and document recognisation, seeing AI by Microsoft
What do they recommend for a camera? A web cam?Unfortunately I don't have access to their app store yet as I'm still running Windows 7 but an app like this might convince me to do the upgrade to 10.
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Re: Relaxing background music
I don't have a playlist to offer, but can say that I usually have my Echo playing a local classical music station I can't receive any other way or a station on Amazon Music called Classical Focus.
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Re: web visum and capcha solving
Instead of going through all this jumping through hoops, just use CAPTCHA Be Gone, For just under $4 per month or about $35 per year, you get a CAPTCHA solver that works for both IE and FF and you never have to worry about how many CAPTCHAs you encounter.
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players
Sounds like the exact same way the Pen Friend secures the micro SD card it uses for its internal storage. If it is, the metal cover over the micro SD card should slide down without too much force, then hinge up with no force at all
Re: Accessing the internal disk of Digital Book Players
One thing I'm thinking regarding this thread is that it would be nice to gain access to the internal storage on the Stream and the Trek when its released and I get mine. I have about 40 BARD books, and 25 book share books in the
Re: Virtual machine
I'd gather as much information as I could about them, the name of the business as well as who worked for them and file a criminal complaint against them. That's just down right theft.
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Re: Victor Reader Stream gets a new big brother
To each his own and not one damn thing wrong with any choice you make as long as it works for you.
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Re: Virtual machine
Nor would I expect the owner of the business looking kindly on it either, whomever lifted the memory and swapped the drive might well find them selves out of a job as well as facing criminal charges.
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Re: Virtual machine
I think if I were you, I'd complain. You got a smaller hard drive and somebody decides to lift 4 GB of memory off of you?
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Re: jaws finding multiple arguements
I kind of like the ` because it isn't used much and it doesn't require a shift key. If I store it in a variable near the beginning of my code, I can include instructions that would allow users to choose their preferred delimiter.
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Dark wrote:Well again the trekker was just too much hassle for me what with sensor speaker, god knows how many cables etc. I also found it rather unreliable, what with it being essentially a hacked tablet running custom software with
Re: Virtual machine
I'll try contacting VMware and see if they have an answer. Can't hurt and might help.
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Re: jaws finding multiple arguements
To the point that flackers makes, I belive JAWS already has a word list feature that might do just that, thought to be honest, I've never used it so I don't know what it can and can't do.On the project that I'm calling a parallel search capability, the
Re: jaws finding multiple arguements
I understand what k_jones is suggesting, but would never implement it that way because it is too limiting. But for a one off quick and dirty solution it would definitely do the trick.Alright then, I've always felt that the best way to learn something is
Re: Virtual machine
It would be nice to know and if somebody has a copy if it could be made available, for me I see no real need to switch to a 64 bit system. The only real advantage that I can see that you get with a 64 bit system is the ability to access more than 4 GB of memory.
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Re: Virtual machine
Later than that, I know because I use version 8 on a 32 bit machine at work before I lost my vision. That would have been in 2012.But that's interesting that they dropped 32 bit host machine support. It makes sense though.
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Re: jaws finding multiple arguements
You are right that isn't the idea, let me try describing it in English.First off, as I thought about this I realized that my pseudo code wouldn't even do the search requested, so for the most part you can ignore it.Before you even get to that code the
Re: Virtual machine
Later than that, I know because I use version 8 on a 32 bit machine at work before I lost my vision. That would have been in 2012.
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Re: Victor Reader Stream gets a new big brother
Unfortunately no, because all these new features requires hardware that isn't present in the Trekker or Stream devices.
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Re: jaws finding multiple arguements
I believe each term requested needs to be searched for in a way that isn't dependant on any other searches.Here some pseudo code off the top of my headfound=0
for x=1 to number of search terms
if search term[x] is in look in
then found=x
endif
next x
Re: Virtual machine
@AngelDo you have any kind of proof that you can show that the memory card was a 6 GB card? If you have proof, you might be able to complain that somebody pulled a quick swap on you, probably thinking that a blind or visually impaired person isn't going to notice.@akseI
Re: jaws finding multiple arguements
It sounds like flackers is way ahead of me in scripting knowledge, as I'm just starting out. On the flip side I'm in no way new to programming so I might just pick up JAWS scripting real quick.Either way, if I come up with something, I'll be happy to
Re: Virtual machine
It's common among laptops to use part of your system memory for video. Even if your laptop has separate memory for video, because 32 bit systems can only access 4 GB of memory, some of it will be set aside so that the video memory can be accessed. To you it will look
Re: jaws finding multiple arguements
I'm quite certain that JAWS could do it with a little scripting. Heck it could probably be added to the current find function behind the control F and F3 keys.I can't do it now, I'm just getting started, but I am currently in the process of teaching
Re: Victor Reader Stream gets a new big brother
And don't forget blue tooth. Unlike the Trekker's external clip on speaker, the Trek's clip on speaker has no wire because it's a blue tooth speaker. Or if you prefer bone conducting headphones like the After Shokz, they are blue tooth too.
Re: Virtual machine
I'd have used VMWare Player, it's free and works real well.
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Re: Victor Reader Stream gets a new big brother
I can't speak for anyone else, but I didn't go to either convention, so I chose to buy one based on the interview with Humanware Joe Steincamp (I hope I got that right) in one of the Blind Bargains podcasts.
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Re: Victor Reader Stream gets a new big brother
My mobility training, if I can be so generous as to call it that, really sucked. I have absolutely no confidence that I could safely cross a major thoroughfare. So I'm limited to places I can get to while crossing only relatively quiet
Re: Victor Reader Stream gets a new big brother
That was the one point that convinced me to upgrade to the Trek. For the types of walking trips I'm willing to take with my current mobility skills, the accuracy of the Galileo system will be just what I need.The other features they'll be
Re: Victor Reader Stream gets a new big brother
@chrisI know that Humanware does have dealers, but I do not know if they are extending preordering to them, but I don't see why not, so I would suggest that you check to see if there is a dealer near you.Me? I agree that $30 is a bit steep
Re: Victor Reader Stream gets a new big brother
Absolutely! I had forgotten those, but my excuse is that they seemed to have done more adding of features than putting the two products together. The podcast about it was 79 minutes long, that's a lot to remember without notes.
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Victor Reader Stream gets a new big brother
Those of you who follow the Blind Bargains podcast will know about this already, so I'm posting this for those who don't.Humanware has announced the Victor Reader Trek. It's a blending of the Victor Reader Stream with a Trekker Breeze Plus into a
Re: BrushTone v1.2.6 Update
Thank you! Downloading...
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Re: What anti-virus are you using on Windows?
Since about 2000, I've held the belief that both Norton and McAfee are garbage and won't go anywhere near either of them. Once installed on your computer, they are harder to get rid of than the viruses they're supposed to protect against.@dracI
Re: Short Demonstration of DotWalker PRO
I just got an email from Humanware saying that they'll be at both the NFB and AFB conventions and that besides having special sales for convention goers, that they'd also be showing off some new product. I wonder if it's going to be a new GPS since
Re: What anti-virus are you using on Windows?
Unfortunately there is no such thing as an anti virus that will catch all threats, a virus scanner like that is for the clueless, for everyone else, a good anti virus like Microsoft Security Essentials or Windows Defender and some common sense
Re: What anti-virus are you using on Windows?
Unfortunately there is no such thing as an anti virus that will catch all threats, a virus scanner like that is for the clueless, for everyone else, a good anti virus like Microsoft Security Essentials or Windows Defender and some common sense
Re: Short Demonstration of DotWalker PRO
Agreed, although I did talk negatively about it's price, I did buy a Trekker Breeze Plus and can say that the only time I ever had a problem with it was when I first got it and took it on a walk I already knew and didn't need a GPS for. On the way
Re: Short Demonstration of DotWalker PRO
That's a shame to hear about the Trekker Breeze being discontinued, but at seven or eight hundred dollars I probably shouldn't be surprised. Especially when there are some very good and very reasonably priced GPS apps for the blind available for
Re: What anti-virus are you using on Windows?
I've been using Microsoft Security Essentials ever since I discovered that Avast wasn't very accessible about three and a half years ago and have been satisfied with it. It may not be as good as Avast, but it *IS* fully accessible.
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Re: a little problem with my computer
You could get that behavior if the system thinks the folders are in use. Try rebooting the system, then deleting them.You could also try scanning the disk for errors and fixing them.
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Re: amazon echo, would you recommend it?
I just learned a lesson, do not do the voice training in the Alexa app. For most of a week, my Echo has been flawless, then I decided to improve its interpretation of my voice so I did a couple of voice training sessions with it.In each of these
Re: Sun-Shine screenreader - a new chinese screenreader released?
Yeah, it's nice to hear people will have more choices when choosing a screen reader, but I'm not going to download it either, I'm happy with JAWS and NVDA as a backup.
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