Category: Geeks r Us
Hello Everyone,
Please visit http://blindwebaccess.com and sign the petition asking Yahoo! to tear down their "No Blind People Allowed" sign by adding an audio CAPTCHA. This is an important initiative. Yahoo! is watching us to see how much support we can garner as they decided how an audio CAPTCHA should be prioritized. Let's show them it is of the highest urgency they tear down this sign and let us in!
Thanks.
Somebody else posted about this petition and as i said in that topick and i will say it here as well audio is not always a good thing. Hotmail has it and it is very difficult to understand. That's how it was anyway the last time i had to do it. I like what yahoo does where you contact a member of stuff and they do the account for you. Every time i contacted them i had very nice support and i found them that they respect the customer unlike hotmail where when somebody contacts them they try and make you look stupit by telling you to check your speakers are plugged so you can listen to their horrible audio.
So the contacting way might take a bit longer but at list it is more usefull in my oppinion. If they make audio which is very difficult to understand and they stop their support in person to the blind that would be a step back than forward in my oppinion. So far the only clear enough audio i found was with google and paypal. Hotmail used to be good but they made it worst recently.
I'm not worried about yahoo. There are so many better services.
I've already signed the pitition.
Jeffrey
hi. There may be better services out there, true enough. But the fact that any site on the net, any site at all, keeps us from registering, especially a site where you have to pay for a service is wrong. . It's like saying to them Ok I'm interested in what you're selling but you lock me out? and what if a site you use every day with no problems starts using an inaccessible captcha system to guard against spam and you can't do a simple thing like check your bank balance or write something down, simply because you can't see the letters in the box? You might be able to use it today, but not tomorrow. My point is maybe you don't use it, but someone else might and it is just plane wrong no matter how you slice it for them to not offer *some* kind of alternative. and when i last took a look, the form for contacting them isn't even there anymore. So if it goes away and stays away then yeah i say screw Yahoo! But if enough people put pressure on these folks or maybe write to the developer of Captcha themselves, maybe something can be done about it.
Try being deaf blind and only having acptcha and an audiu allternative. I know one woman who can't even set up a staples account because of that, so I'd rather see someone contact Yahoo then the petition as I said it's a useless thing for the zone to put up here, but hey no one cares what some dumb bitch thinks and it's blindness we demand access when I'd rather either not use that one, or beyond that then ask for help and better myself my way not a bunch of net we want this, blindies.
I like the example of the deaf blind person. The audio wouldn't be useful. Not even to a person with only a litle hearing imparement. The audios are usually distorded and not even people with ful hearing can understand them.
I'm curious: what problems do you have with audio verifications? I too have full hearing and can perceive the digits just fine.
It deppents which audio you are talking about. I can understand paypal and google the last time i tried but not hotmail.
well I can understand it fine too but I can understand the hard of hearing person's point of view and how it might be hard for them to understand because you do have background noise along with the numbers and letters spoken.
Kerby
We're asking for "reasonable" accomodations. Audio is the current state of the art for doing this. We've got to start somewhere, folks...
Here's my take on Yahoo. They're incompitent jerks who may want to help us,but ou need a phone number, and this and that... I'd rather just ask for help, know the addres of what I need, or failing that, find another way. Yahoo has little respect for the community of people except pay us now! As for being hard of earing, I'm not, but I can understand the captcha's just fine. Yahoo's just ruthlessly stupid yet we blind folks think a petition will help? petition our asshole pres our of the oval office would you? I know he's got a year left, wish he would've let someone suck him off, or better let him resign when one of his daughters is gay. he deserves it. so in the end, forget petitioning, ti does no good.
I agree and will sign the petition, however:
Captia (with or without audio) is a terrible way to verify intelligence.
There are much simpler systems out there that ask a simple question that no robot could answer (for example,, how many toes does a normal human foot have?) No Becky the answer's ten <lol>.
Someone is making big bucks providing captia for corporate junkies who don't care who they hurt on their way to the bank.
I'd rather see a petition against all captia, but, as I said in the beginning, I'll sign the petition hoping for a better one some time.
If we are going to sell out to this garbage, let's at least be honest about it. NFB and ACB are once again proving their uselessness on this issue.
Bob