Re: Craig's List graphical password
- From: "Tippy" <tippy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:14:41 -0500
I once was on a web page that had an image number so you could get to where
the information was that I wanted and right below where the image number was
was a link that said "If you can't read this number click here for it to be
read audibly" and it did read it to me audibly. Maybe you could send them
that idea.
Tippy
----- Original Message -----
From: "john r. vaughn" <jrvaughn44@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: Craig's List graphical password
> Yardbird, I went to creat an account and clicked on the "whats this link"
and got the following which may be the problem for the blind. here is that
page.
> John
> Human Detector (Verification Word)
>
> craigslist
> online community
>
> Human Detector (Verification Word)
> The use of 3rd party software for automated posting on craigslist is
increasingly the source of lots of complaints and an unrelenting cause of
periodic
> server overload.
>
> These tools are typically used to post hundreds (sometimes thousands) of
times per day, often with the intent of keeping postings at the top of the
list.
>
> In order to get a better handle on this situation, we're adopting a "human
detector" verification process in selected categories.
>
> This process requires a human eye to read a word from a computer-generated
image, and then type it into a submission form.
>
> Sorry for the hassle, but we're running out of ideas on how to cope with
this problem.
>
> If you have questions or comments about this change, please bring them to
our attention in the
> feedback forum
>
> Thanks!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 3:13 PM
> Subject: Craig's List graphical password
>
>
> Craig's List, the international online community based in San Francisco,
has
> recently added a new and unwelcome quirk, as I just now discovered. If
you
> wish to post an ad in any of the classified categories, which I do, you
now
> have to create an account for yourself. And a feature of that procedure,
> and probably when logging onto the site thereafter, is typing in a
password
> that-- you guessed it-- seems to be presented graphically. Worse than
that,
> actually. If you click on a "what's this" link to learn more, or maybe to
> get to the displayed password, you wind up on what to jaws looks like a
> completely blank page.
>
> Remembering that I once contacted them for help with another site
navigation
> issue a long time ago by an email address they provided, I went to the
Help
> page to look for that contact address. But I couldn't find any such
thing,
> this time, just a FAQ page (which didn't mention account setup at all,
never
> mind blind issues), and there's also a link for what CL calls the Help
Desk,
> which from what I can make out (Jaws navigates it as if it's moving
through
> mud, so it's hard to figure out) is some kind of online forum with
questions
> and discussion. I couldn't figure out how to find anything there for my
> problem.
>
>
> Has anyone else encountered this same hassle on Craig's List? Any
> suggestions? I'm really disappointed to find Craig's List so out of it in
> regard to this sort of thing, considering their very community-minded
ethos.
> They provided one of the most effective online networks the past couple of
> weeks for arranging assistance and financial contributions for the victims
> of Hurricane Katrina; you'd think, etc.
>
> thanks.
> ncoutnered
>
>
>
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