Re: [OSM-talk] You have killed accessibility!

2010-07-01 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
On Thursday 01 July 2010 20:20:55 Lulu-Ann wrote: You are inhibiting our blind contributors to stay with us!!! We're also inhibiting the spammers, who are a nuisance just right now. User block didn't work, and IP block didn't work, so the wiki admins were forced to implement captchas. --

Re: [OSM-talk] You have killed accessibility!

2010-07-01 Thread Andrew Ayre
Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2010 20:20:55 Lulu-Ann wrote: You are inhibiting our blind contributors to stay with us!!! We're also inhibiting the spammers, who are a nuisance just right now. User block didn't work, and IP block didn't work, so the wiki admins were forced

Re: [OSM-talk] You have killed accessibility!

2010-07-01 Thread Lulu-Ann
Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es An: talk@openstreetmap.org CC: Lulu-Ann lulu-...@gmx.de, accessibility accessibil...@openstreetmap.org Betreff: Re: [OSM-talk] You have killed accessibility! On Thursday 01 July 2010 20:20:55 Lulu-Ann wrote: You are inhibiting our blind contributors to stay

Re: [OSM-talk] You have killed accessibility!

2010-07-01 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
On Thursday 01 July 2010 21:14:23 lulu-...@gmx.de wrote: There is a possibility to have captchas with audio output. Yes, but it takes time to implement. Captchas were implemented as a quick hack to keep spammers at bay. It was not a deliberate move to keep blind people away. Please bear with

Re: [OSM-talk] You have killed accessibility!

2010-07-01 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 01 July 2010, lulu-...@gmx.de wrote: There is a possibility to have captchas with audio output. Yes, and strangely enough the admins, not being idiots, did consider this beforehand. Unfortunately there is an issue with our current version of mediawiki and recaptcha. In the

Re: [OSM-talk] You have killed accessibility!

2010-07-01 Thread David Murn
Just wait til she finds out what her 'access' is like this weekend.. On a serious note, how many blind mappers do we have on OSM? On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 20:20 +0200, Lulu-Ann wrote: Since today the wiki can not be edited any more calculating plus or minus, now you have to be able to see a

Re: [OSM-talk] You have killed accessibility!

2010-07-01 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, David Murn wrote: Just wait til she finds out what her 'access' is like this weekend.. On a serious note, how many blind mappers do we have on OSM? Blind users or just interested people are enough. And I can find a zillion reason why a blind person wants to use OSM.

Re: [OSM-talk] You have killed accessibility!

2010-07-01 Thread Peter Körner
Am 01.07.2010 22:35, schrieb David Murn: On a serious note, how many blind mappers do we have on OSM? A single onw is enough. And yes, there are more than this. Thank you, Lulu-Ann, for reporting this bug. Peter ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] You have killed accessibility!

2010-07-01 Thread Liz
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Lulu-Ann wrote: Since today the wiki can not be edited any more calculating plus or minus, now you have to be able to see a captcha image. There is no accessibility feature like acoustic output. Revert immediately!!! You are inhibiting our blind contributors to stay

Re: [OSM-talk] You have killed accessibility!

2010-07-01 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Liz wrote: I have seen a captcha with an option to listen to something. Sorry now that I didn't try it, nor recall where I saw it. http://www.google.com/recaptcha Ask and it is given. Stefan ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] You have killed accessibility!

2010-07-01 Thread Richard Weait
[quoting from #osm-dev] (05:08:49 PM) Firefishy: !log wiki enabled reCaptcha (with code fixes) instead of silly image Captcha. Thank you, Firefishy (Grant), for fixing the code so that ReCaptcha can be used on our wiki! ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] You have killed accessibility!

2010-07-01 Thread Kate Chapman
Mobile navigation applications for those that are blind are very expensive. One of the more popular ones MobileGeo is about $800 USD. I have a couple friends using MobileGeo who share waypoints with each other but would love to have access to other people map information and be able to share