Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2013-05-23 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I've used this technique before as well. Just one correction, to take a screen shot, you press command shift and the number 3. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On May 22, 2013, at 6:51 PM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2013-05-23 Thread Devin Prater
I really wish there was web visim for safari. How ell has firefox accessibilityh progressed on the mac? Sent from my iPod On 23 mai 2013, at 01:37, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've used this technique before as well. Just one correction, to take a screen shot, you

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2013-05-23 Thread Maria Joe Chapman
Hi have you tried rumula? i've probably spelt that totally wrong. Once it's set up it works with no problem. God Bless! Maria from australia Newbie mac user. bubbygirl1...@gmail.com will get you fb as well as email iMessage. skype same as email,without the gmail part. twitter bubbygirl

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2013-05-23 Thread Devin Prater
If that's not free I can't try it. I don't even have much money in iTunes right now, LOL Sent from my iPod On 23 mai 2013, at 08:07, Maria Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi have you tried rumula? i've probably spelt that totally wrong. Once it's set up it works with no

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2013-05-23 Thread Maria Joe Chapman
HI it's not free but it's not very expensive either. I think you get a certain amount of solves for free though. Blessings! Maria Joe and loving guide Karly. Email/ I Message: fb bubbygirl1...@gmail.com twitter: bubbygirl skype: bubbygirl1972 bubbygirl1...@gmail.com On 23/05/2013, at

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2013-05-23 Thread Devin Prater
Ah, OK. I'll, see about it, but if I can get firefox to work, I'm using that. Sent from my iPod On 23 mai 2013, at 08:09, Maria Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com wrote: HI it's not free but it's not very expensive either. I think you get a certain amount of solves for free though.

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2013-05-22 Thread Nee
Hey everyone! Has anyone found a solution to this problem in the past 1.5 years? :) I've been wondering a few times if it'd be possible to take a photo of the creen with your IPhone and ask a Webworker on Viswis to read it, but it probably produces inaccurate results, or what? Wouldn't know,

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2013-05-22 Thread Brandon Olivares
This pops up on this list every few months. :) Currently the best one is Rumola. Go to http://skipinput.com to sign up. It's $0.99 for 50 credits. Brandon JMJ CLF Hosting Pay for what you need. Build your own package. On May 22, 2013, at 5:39 PM, Nee silly...@gmail.com wrote: Hey everyone!

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2013-05-22 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I did something the other day that worked, as I took a screen capture of the screen I think it was VO command 3 and then pasted it an email sent it to someone and they told me what the screen capture was, yes a pain but it worked. On May 22, 2013, at 5:53 PM, Brandon Olivares

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-11-13 Thread Teresa Cochran
It should be set up that way. You can double-check by going into VO Utilities/commander/keyboard commander. HTH, Teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers. On Nov 12, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Johnny Angel! wrote: Hi all, I saw this in the archives. Is set up the same in Lion?

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-11-12 Thread Johnny Angel!
Hi all, I saw this in the archives. Is set up the same in Lion? Thanks, Johnny Chilelli On Sep 10, 2011, at 8:56 PM, Jon Cohn wrote: Well, I have managed to avoid these things, but if it helps keyboard commander is set up by default in Snow Leopard to have left-option-X send the image in

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-17 Thread Johnny Angel!
captchas with mac and safari I must agree, many sites are now audio captcha enabled but a lot of them are pretty hard to understand. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 10, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Cody wrote: I am wondering the same thing and as far as I know ff is still not accessible. Fortunately many sites

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-13 Thread Chris Blouch
Wonder how that holds up to a speech recognition like Dragon? If it's easy for you it might be easy for an algorithm. CB On 9/12/11 11:05 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: Personally, I don't think that audio captchas aren't that bad. For example, when I used the OS whose name we can't say, when I

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-13 Thread Rachel magario
Hmm, I think it would be. That would bridge some security issues. Does everyone have issue with the numbers that have backgrownd sound, such as the ones google uses? I have to change and request a different file, but I notice the same happens with sighted people, loads of time an image is to

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-13 Thread Chris Blouch
Yup, no reason to not let folks know there is an issue, just understand that nobody else seems to know how to fix it either. Friend of mine worked on the captcha used on AOL where they layer up two voices which isn't all that hard to decipher but I think would be difficult for something like

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Adie
Guys, I am fed up of audio captcha. My Member of Parliament currently has a question in to the UK Prime Minister about use of audio capcha on government websites. I know it's a drag, but we need to challenge these things every time we come across them. I was on a site the other day which had a

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Rachel magario
Eric and all following this thread, I am not sure why they think that. Perhaps, because it is claimed to be the most accessible for jaws and for orca too? Also it is not owned my apple or Microsoft. The volunteers who work for open source, usually dislike the oppressive proprietary companies.

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
recently while submitting my rss feed to a new directory i ran across a captcha i had never heard of before. it gave you a list of six check boxes and asked you to check which ones were birds. I liked it so much i went back to see what would happen. the next time it asked which of the

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Now, seems to me that's one very correct approach to take to the matter. I trust you commended them for there forward thinking on the captcha matter? Seems to me such providers, site developers ETC deserve to be emulated. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Teresa Cochran
Yes, Wordpress uses the equations for capchas on their sites. I love this kind of solution, being accessible to all, or at least more folks. Teresa On Sep 12, 2011, at 1:04 AM, Adie wrote: Guys, I am fed up of audio captcha. My Member of Parliament currently has a question in to the UK

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Teresa Cochran
That's so great. :) More of those, please! :) Teresa On Sep 12, 2011, at 6:58 AM, Maxwell Ivey Jr. wrote: recently while submitting my rss feed to a new directory i ran across a captcha i had never heard of before. it gave you a list of six check boxes and asked you to check which ones

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Chris Blouch
Just downloaded and tried Opera 11.51 and didn't get very far. On really simple test pages I could navigate to some items but on others I got busy, VO crash or seemed to get stuck or just say empty web area when it should have been reading content. So that was a waste of time. WebAIM describes

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Chris Blouch
As I had mentioned in previous emails, the root issue is a philisophical one. Good app developers want to write their code once. So when it came to accessibility the Mozilla folks went to the open standard IAccessible2 APIs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAccessible2 That way any platform

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Rachel magario
Agree Chris, I work with developers every day, as well ass with the business side. the true is that there is always things to implement. but I really think the matter is philosophical, if in matter of principal accessibility was there as a principal from the start of RND and in the business

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Rachel magario
same of what happened to me. going to try crom next. thanks, Rachel On Sep 12, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Just downloaded and tried Opera 11.51 and didn't get very far. On really simple test pages I could navigate to some items but on others I got busy, VO crash or seemed to get

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Chris Blouch
It all comes down to the purpose of captcha. It is a cognitive test by supplying a puzzle that would be difficult for a computer to solve to try and prove you're not a bot. Today there are very few of those kinds of puzzles. Image and audio recognition are about the only two that haven't been

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Rachel magario
I second that. We cannot nearly request that security be lowered for our sake. I believe your explanations are very educative, specially to those who are not aware of the difficulties developers face. However, I feel there is a place also for the expression of the frustrations with in reason,

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Teresa Cochran
I'm looking forward to a Safari extension that will solve these capchas. I don't currently have enough knowledge of the situation to know how to do it myself, but appreciate any effort anyone can offer. Perhaps I may learn to provide accessibility solutions one day myself. We shall see. :)

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Francisco Salvador Crespo
Hi Teresa, I'm very interested in test this extension. How can i get it? Thanks, Francisco El 12/09/2011, a las 19:28, Teresa Cochran escribió: I'm looking forward to a Safari extension that will solve these capchas. I don't currently have enough knowledge of the situation to know how to do

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Personally, I don't think that audio captchas aren't that bad. For example, when I used the OS whose name we can't say, when I wanted to demo the Acapela voices, they gave me both a visual and audio captcha to choose from. The Audio Captcha used Acapela Heather to speak the numbers so I could

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread louie
So is that OS CPM? On Sep 12, 2011, at 8:05 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: Personally, I don't think that audio captchas aren't that bad. For example, when I used the OS whose name we can't say, when I wanted to demo the Acapela voices, they gave me both a visual and audio captcha to choose

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Rachel magario
there is a way to use solona. But you are right, often there are no operators. I don't know of any other way. Rachel. On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Cody wrote: I am wondering the same thing and as far as I know ff is still not accessible. Fortunately many sites have the audio captcha but

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Rachel magario
the sad part is that loads of programers think firefox is the most accessible browser out there. They get shocked to find it does not work on the mac. I recall a programer at my work insisted that I should use mozilla. Only after he tried using it with vo by him self, was when the message

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
Yes it is indeed sad, i love it on windows and apparently it is great on linux as well. Safari works better for me then 1.5 years ago but i still get a lot of sluggishness busy/ready stuff. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 11, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Rachel magario wrote: the sad part is that loads of

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread trahern culver
hey gang if your looking for good web brouses for mac try icab and lightening kind regards trahern -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Did you test this for accessibility? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Sep 11, 2011, at 10:30 AM, trahern culver wrote: hey gang if your looking for good web brouses for mac

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Teresa Cochran
The only downside to Lightning is that it's webkit-based as well. It's pretty darn fast, though. Teresa On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:30 AM, trahern culver wrote: hey gang if your looking for good web brouses for mac try icab and lightening kind regards trahern -- You received this message

RE: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Sarah May
@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anouk Radix Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 12:23 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari I must agree, many sites are now audio captcha enabled but a lot of them are pretty hard to understand. Greetings, Anouk

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Eric Oyen
I find that rather interesting. now why would the general public (and business professionals) get the impression that mozilla was the most accessible web browser for any OS? sure it works well with windoweeyes and jaws in the windows platform. it also works mostly with orca in linux. it does

solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-10 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi everyone, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona and ie (but often there was no operator online) or webvisum and firefox. Is there a way to solve visual captchas as a blind person on the mac? As far as I know firefox is still not accessible on the mac. Thanks in

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-10 Thread Cody
I am wondering the same thing and as far as I know ff is still not accessible. Fortunately many sites have the audio captcha but there are still plenty that don't On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: Hi everyone, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona and

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-10 Thread Jon Cohn
Well, I have managed to avoid these things, but if it helps keyboard commander is set up by default in Snow Leopard to have left-option-X send the image in the VOICE-OVER cursor via mail. Best wishes, Jonathan On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: Hi everyone, On the pc I could

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-10 Thread Christine Grassman
Great. I was thinking of trying Firefox, because I'm bloody sick of hearing Safari busy -- particularly when I'm on my bank's web site paying my bills. What are others using besides SAfari? On Sep 10, 2011, at 8:56 PM, Jon Cohn wrote: Well, I have managed to avoid these things, but if it

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-10 Thread Chris Blouch
Safari is the primary browser for OSX but some people have found that the nightly build of Webkit (the engine of Safari)vhas less issues. Of course nightly build means each day some stuff is fixed but other stuff might be broken. You might also try Chrome which is supposed to be accessible

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-10 Thread Teresa Cochran
Yes, unfortunately, I have enough of a hearing impairment that I can't use about half the audio capchas. I use VMware Fusion and a Linux distro running Firefox and webvisum to solve them. It's roundabout and rather expensive, but I use Fusion for other purposes, too. Teresa -- You received

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-10 Thread Anouk Radix
I must agree, many sites are now audio captcha enabled but a lot of them are pretty hard to understand. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 10, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Cody wrote: I am wondering the same thing and as far as I know ff is still not accessible. Fortunately many sites have the audio captcha but

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-10 Thread Anouk Radix
A bit ot but i found the newest version of thunderbird on windows to not work that well with jfw 12 either. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 11, 2011, at 4:22 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: Safari is the primary browser for OSX but some people have found that the nightly build of Webkit (the engine of

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-10 Thread Eric Oyen
good luck using mozilla. they have repeatedly refused to abide by apples terms when it comes to the voiceover api. they keep blaming apple and apple says they have to abide by the apple developers license. until mozilla pulls their collective heads out of said asses, we are not going to see an