Hi Darrell, Thanks for the impassioned response, I'll take the somewhat impersonal approach of answering your questions with bullets, but I want to make sure all your needs are addressed.
1. Audio CAPTCHA is definitely in plan for a future release. This is being worked on at Yahoo! by our own accessibility evangelist and we will incorporate it as soon as possible. In the meantime, our support team will register users over the telephone if needed. I noticed you posted another message from our support team with a clearly incorrect response. I will follow up and make sure this doesn't happen again. In the meantime, I will also make sure that you get contacted via email for a phone registration. 2. The Firefox extension does have keyboard shortcuts for virtually everything. We are working on an updated IE extension, but even that extension can't utilize keyboard shortcuts because Microsoft doesn't allow them in browser add-ons. We are investigating workarounds but haven't found a solution yet. 3. We'd love to invite blind users to our beta, but unless they self identify somehow, it's hard for us to determine whom to invite. If you know of any, please have them email me directly and I will make sure it happens. Also, once your are registered on del.icio.us, let me know, and I will make sure you get in the beta, because we want to hear your feedback. Finally, I want to apologize for your experience with registration. I realize that for every user that takes the time to write, there are many who give up, so it's in our best interests to put our best foot forward. Thanks again for writing. Nick Nguyen Product Manager, del.icio.us --- In ydn-delicious@yahoogroups.com, "Darrell Shandrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Del.icio.us Developers, > > I am writing to ask that the Del.icio.us developers make sure the service is accessible in such a way as to reasonably accomodate the needs of people with disabilities, including blindness. > > First, and most important, please make the CAPTCHA signup process accessible by way of an audio playback of the characters, a text-based challenge/response, etc. The current inaccessibility of the registration process represents a lock out of blind people solely based on our lack of physical eye sight. Doing this just isn't right on a number of levels, especially since a number of technologies now exist to make this happen. > > Second, please work on the browser integration extensions. For instance, please add keyboard shortcuts to the Internet Explorer plugin so that we may be granted access to this bookmarklet functionality. Information about usable, alternative tools for this purpose would also be appreciated from the developer and user communities. > > Third, please make sure some of us blind users are invited to participate in the new del.icio.us beta, and take our accessibility related feedback into serious consideration. > > I hope I will receive some positive responses to this request both from the del.icio.us development team and the overall developer community. It is important that everyone, including those of us whom happen to be blind / visually impaired, be afforded an equal chance at participation on the web. We have something to contribute, too, right alongside our sighted peers. Being accessible is quite simply the right thing to do. > > Best regards, > > Please visit http://BlindWebAccess.com and sign the petition asking Yahoo! to make their CAPTCHA accessible! > Darrell Shandrow - Accessibility Evangelist > Information should be accessible to us without need of translation by another person. > Blind Access Journal blog and podcast: http://www.blindaccessjournal.com > Check out high quality telecommunications services at http://ld.net/?nu7i > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
