[JAWSLite] Re: -----SPAM----- Re: Yahoogroups

The NFB knows all about this issue, but there is little they can do.

Gerald
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "wayne b smith" <waynesoundsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 11:13 AM
Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: -----SPAM----- Re: Yahoogroups


> These issues with "invisible codes" are on-going.  I will contact the NFB
> and see if their legal department is working on this as a civil rights, 
> ADA
> issue.  If it is not, it needs to be.  The ADA got us into the buildings,
> helped us to get the jobs and, now, because of technology, we enter the
> office and the tools are invisible.  When commercial and government
> buildings are built today, they are required to be accessible.  The
> architecture of hardware and software needs to be built with accessibility
> built in or they must provide the plugins and other tools to let us do 
> what
> everybody else is doing.  I suggest that you contact the blind and
> disability advocacy groups and the Civil Rights division of the Justice
> Department.  Why should we have to battle and educate every company for
> this?
>
> If we don't do this, who will?
>
> Wayne
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jawslite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jawslite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Rick Harmon
> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 9:38 PM
> To: jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: -----SPAM----- Re: Yahoogroups
>
> I have very little problem with audio captchas here, but I don't have any
> hearing loss either.  I agree though that webvisum is currently the way to
> go but be warned different captcha methods are coming that may make
> webvisume wworthless as well.
>
> Rick
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Gomes" <finnygomes@xxxxxxx>
> To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 10:11 PM
> Subject: -----SPAM----- [JAWSLite] Re: Yahoogroups
>
>
> there is no way you can hear that audio captucha that is widely used 
> today.
> You hear a bunch of people talking like you are in a bar or something and
> the different people who say the numbers sound like they are drunk. I 
> either
> contact the web people and explain the problem or do not use the site.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 1:35 PM
> Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: Yahoogroups
>
>
>>
>> The best way to sign up with Yahoo groups without sighted help is to use
>> Firefox with Webvisum, the add on that magically deciphers these annoying
>> on-screen codes otherwise known as image captias.
>>
>> Gerald
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Deidre Muccio" <deimucc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 3:24 PM
>> Subject: [JAWSLite] Yahoogroups
>>
>>
>>> Has anyone figured a way without sighted help to get around the codes
>>> that
>>> you must copy in order to sign up for the various Yahoogroups? There is 
>>> a
>>> contact link for the visually impaired but in all the years I've tried 
>>> to
>>> use it, I have never been contacted as promised. This continues to 
>>> enrage
>>> me.
>>>
>>>
>>> Deidre
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