[access-uk] Re: signing up to Twitter
- From: "Barbara Wilson" <barkingbabs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:19:16 -0000
Hi Damon
Twitter itself once you are joined is very accessible for a screen reader user.
I signed up several weeks ago when it seems they had a file with audio
containing numbers for people who can't read the image. Now they have changed
it though they say the numbers thing is still there if you go to Help, but it's
not. I've experimented with the sign up since myself trying to sign up a
charity I am involved with, but as you say no matter what words you type in it
comes back as wrong even though they tell you just to have your best guess. So
it seems they have changed it from being quite accessible to join up to being
impossible. All in the name of progress and improvements I am sure. Looks like
it's the good old sighted help for now.
Barbara Wilson
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----- Original Message -----
From: Damon
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 12:45 PM
Subject: [access-uk] signing up to Twitter
HI there.
Am trying to sign up to Twitter at twitter.com.
On the face of it, it looks as if they've thought about accessibility which
is great. There is an audio captcha feature: just click, listen, and tap the
words you hear into the box before you are able to sign up.
I've listened again and again to over a dozen different audio captchas this
morning - they sound like segments taken from old movies - and I've typed what
I heard faithfully into the captcha field. I've even tried only typing in a
couple of the words, or the most clear words, various combinations as the audio
says that it doesn't matter if you can't hear it properly, just take your best
guess.
But I've failed again and again. It seems to me that the audio bears
absolutely no relation to the sign up process whatsoever.
Has anyone else had any luck with this recently?
Hasten to add that the idea of joining Twitter doesn't fill me with
amazement, I'm kinda doing it for research purposes.
Thanks.
...Damon
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