Accessible options should be provided along side CAPTCHA's and every
device should be accessible. Obviously there are some exceptions, but
how many people thought touch screens couldn't be made accessible and
blind people were just being unreasonable when they wanted accessible
cell phones. If it weren't for blind people demanding accessibility and
smart engineers at Apple and other companies then you wouldn't be able
to be sending such short sighted messages to an iPhone list.
What CAPTCHA solving services are you talking about? I can think
ofWebvisum, which isn't being supported any more and only works with one
particular browser. I can think of several others which have cropped up
and then disappeared. If such CAPTCHA solving services bewcome so
ubiquitous then companies will come up with another technology to thwart
automated bots. Pinning your hopes on such 3rd party solutions is pretty
short sighted and it'll never compare to just having accessibility built
in from the beginning.
I'm not ashamed to be part of a community that wants access to products
and services that are available to all. Messages like the one below
though, that undermines the work being done by those who are working
hard to make our world more accessible does make me feel sorry for
someone with such a negative view of the world and the blindness community.
On 05/29/2015 06:02 AM, Shaf wrote:
The same people who complain about a captcha are the same people who
demand every device, app and beyond to be accessible with no compromise.
Absolutely pathetic and makes me ashamed to be part of the blind community.
There are services--incredible services which allow you to easily solve
a captcha in under a minute. There is a reason that these services
exist, use them. Don't want to use them? Your loss.
On 5/29/2015 8:26 AM, Rob Harris wrote:
I'd love to see the sighted jump through all these hoops to get on,...
they'd vote with their feet/fingers by going elsewhere. I made a
screen-reader only page once to see what reaction it got.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Miller" <miller...@gmail.com>
To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: hope this isn't off topic
Hi Larry. I don't think that's outrageous. I think flooding them with
complaints is completely unnecessary. If they did put captions in
their sign in, get an app like a TapTapSee, save the image to the
camera roll, and used to Pepsi or some other app like it to give you
the caption. There's really no need to say we should flood them with
complaints, especially since there seems to be accessible solutions.
Sent from my iPhone
On May 28, 2015, at 8:47 PM, Larry Lumpkin <llump...@austin.rr.com>
wrote:
Has anyone tried to order from Amazon lately. It seems to us that
they have initiated captias in their account sign in. If this is so,
this is outrageous and I think we should flood amazon with complaints.
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