Hi Robert. I know first hand because I spoke with Facebook sometimes
the online petitions do bring attention to the issue. But as you say the
capcha problem expands far beyond social networking. I doubt seriously
congress or any other gov. agency will regulate capcha or it's predecessor.
In the case of Myspace Tom says capcha's became anoying to users in general
which motivated MySpace to find alternatives to security they want there
users happy especially since in my opinion many are jumping to twitter and
FaceBook.
I don't know how it could be done but tscreen readers needs to be able to
read capcha's even than what will replace them to "protect" from spam etc.
As Jim points out accessability isn't everyones problem not even the
majorities problem. Myspace changed when the Majority began
omplaining. ---Our best hope is work arrounds created by the screen reading
industry for the most part. Also if one can show society it's in their best
interest to extend accessability maybe that too will help as the ballooning
National deficit results in less public assistance availability. All ready
in CA SSI recipients are taking a major hit. Maybe if the government
recognizes the better the screen readers work the more it's users can work
resulting in a reduction to the public services overload.
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If the recession/depression doesn't turn arround the impact Californians are
beginning to feel will spread to other states first if it hasn't all ready
than maybe in five six years at the latest it will start being felt on the
national level.
We need to find a way to crack the very high unemployment rate for the blind
community technology is our ticket but it has to work meaning if it's
blocked we are impacted but so is everyone else who has to pay higher taxes
because we aren't in the workforce.
Best regards:
Mike
From: "Robert Clark" <[email protected]>
To: "GW Micro" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: Signing up for Twitter
Michael,
Your comments show exactly why this hit or miss approach wont work.
Captchas are used almost everywhere and should fall under the umbrella of
whatever oversight there is, if there is such an entity.
No I am not overlooking the fact that spam is real. And that is just
the reason we need to centralize efforts to fight this scourge that
Congreess is so loathe to take on.
And frankly, I dont find those online petitions to be of any value.
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