Re: Visual Verification: Petition Asks Yahoo to Tear Down "No Blind People Allowed" Sign

Hello Steve and all,

We all *REALLY* need to do more to publicize this initiative more effectively.  
I thank you all for the support you have provided so far, but I need a lot more 
help, as Karen and I just can't do it all by ourselves over here...  

For example, this really needs a press release, but that's no longer free.  It 
is going to cost $120 to publicize it properly over on PRWeb.com.  I'm not 
necessarily asking for money or anything like that, but, please, everyone, do 
your parts to publicize it, even far outside the blind community.

Thanks.


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
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Holmes 
  To: blindcasting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 1:05 AM
  Subject: RE: Visual Verification: Petition Asks Yahoo to Tear Down "No Blind 
People Allowed" Sign


  Nah, I fully agree with Darrell on this.  When was the last time you got a 
call back from Yahoo to override your CAPTCHA lockout? HMMM? Gee, I tried 
several times over the past several years and I got absolutely NONE; that's 
right, NONE!.  Like others have said on this list, visual CAPTCHA by definition 
discriminates against the blind and anyone who uses it without alternatives is 
biggotted!

   


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  From: Allison Sheridan [mailto:asheridan@xxxxxxx] 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 6:12 AM
  To: Darrell Shandrow
  Cc: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; jfw-employment@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; BlindNetDaily owners 
and primary contributors internal list.; blindcasting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; 
friends@xxxxxxxxxxxx; blind_geek_zone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: Re: Visual Verification: Petition Asks Yahoo to Tear Down "No Blind 
People Allowed" Sign

   

  Darrell - 

   

  I'm extremely offended by your description of Yahoo as being like the people 
who denied African Americans access during segregation. I understand that you 
don't feel the telephone callback scheme is sufficient, but to suggest that 
because it's more difficult is the same as segregation is offensive, AND 
inaccurate.

   

  I won't be signing this one because of the approach you're taking. working 
WITH people works better than insulting them and accusing them of egregious 
insults.

   

  Allison

   

  On Jul 15, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Darrell Shandrow wrote:





  We ask all of you to review and sign the Yahoo's Accessibility Improvement 
Petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/yabvipma/petition.html asking the 
company to make an audio alternative to its CAPTCHA available so that the blind 
and visually impaired will be permitted timely access to the same services as 
those already granted the sighted. The use of a telephone callback scheme is 
totally insufficient as it does not grant the same level of instant access as 
the sighted and Yahoo personnel 
  do not consistently make contact in a timely manner. It is our ongoing 
contention that visual only CAPTCHA schemes without at least an accessible audio
  alternative represent "No Blind People Allowed" signs in much the same way as 
African-Americans were deliberately denied entry to restaurants and other
  similar public accomodations in the era of segregation. We ask Yahoo to 
simply fix their grievous error by promptly adding an audio CAPTCHA to all its
  properties as soon as possible as part of the company's ongoing accessibility 
initiatives.

  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

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