[bksvol-discuss] Re: o/t: Web Visum improves website access for blind
- From: "Darrell Shandrow" <darrell.shandrow@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:40:12 -0700
Hello Jana,
Alas, I have found that Myspace CAPTCHAs do not currently seem to be
solvable with Webvisum at this time.
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From: "Jana Jackson" <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 4:26 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: o/t: Web Visum improves website access for
blind
Hi, Chris! Do you know if this works with MySpace? Since they started
using captchas as one of their spam tools, I can't keep in touch with some
folks as easily as I once could. Thanks!!
Jana
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From: "Chris Hofstader" <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 2:35 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: o/t: Web Visum improves website access for
blind
> This new Firefox plug-in is, in my expert opinion, possibly the coolest
> bit
> of AT software released in a long time. Check it out, you won't be
> displeased.
>
>
> Chris Hofstader
> CUNY, BSO, ATG, Odds and Ends
> email: cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Blog: http://www.blindconfidential.blogspot.com
> Skype: BlindChristian
> phone: 727-896-6393
>
>
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] o/t: Web Visum improves website access for blind
>
> Ever been annoyed by captias u can't see much less solve? Or by
> labeled images that may as well have been written in Martian?
>
> Enter Web Visum! This is the best excuse you'll ever find for making
> Firefox your default browser. WebVisum (visum is vision in Latin) is a
> firefox 3 plugin that does all sorts of things:
> 1) It lets u label links & share those labels w/other users--u, in
> turn, get theirs;
> 2) it can solve most captias w/a keystroke & puts the result on the
> clipboard for pasting into the appropriate field, thus making it
> suitable for both blind & deaf-blind;
> 3) It can OCR some image links, thereby turning them into a
> recognizeable label instead of whatever;
> 4) It's free, & its development is ongoing.
>
> This has been developed by a couple of sighted folks who, out of their
> generosity, wanna help. I think they will start in the future
> developing a premium version, but the basic features I've outlined,
> they say, will remain free.
>
> Check it out at:
> www.webvisum.com
>
> BTW, I have no affiliation w/them, nothing to gain by advertising
> this, accept possibly to help some1.
>
> Blessings.
> --
> Change the world--1 deed at a time
> Jackie McBride
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