---- Original Message ------ From: Chris Skarstad < toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: please sign the Google word verification petition Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:21:39 -0600 > HI all > I know this list has a whole lot of members, so it > would be cool if >everybody on the list would take a second and help out. For a while now >Google, which has a whole lot of services, uses a system called captcha, >which requires someone to type the letters you see in a graphic to proove >you're a human being. I know we've seen this topic brought up here before. >Many people in the blind community have asked them to give us an >alternative method for signing up. Some other services like Microsoft's >msn, Yahoo! and other sites like Live Journal provide audio representations >of the characters you type, and many people think Google should provide the >same kind of alternative method for accessing their services, but to date, >they haven't. >This is where everybody on the list can help. the website to visit is >< http://www.petitiononline.com/captcha>http://www.petitiononline.com/captcha > Simply go to the site, fill in your name, e-mail address and any comments >you'd like to send to google. You don't need to actually leave any >comments, and your e-mail address will not be shown so there's no chance of >anything bad happening. So visit >< http://www.petitiononline.com/captcha>http://www.petitiononline.com/captcha > and sign your name to the petition. The more people we have sign this >petition, the better it will look to google. Right now we have 32 >signatures, but of course, for Google to take this matter even remotely >seriously, we need to have as many as we possibly can. It only takes a >second, and hey, anything we can do to get rid of the captcha method of >verification is ok with me! >Thanks.