How to bypass captchas on iphone and ipad

2023-06-27 Thread 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries
This is how it’s done.. Below is a quote from OSX Daily blogpost. "You can completely bypass and skip CAPTCHAs by enabling an automatic verification feature, here’s how:” 1. Open the Settings app on iPhone or iPad 2. Tap on your name at the very top of the Settings app 3. Choose “Pas

Re: Captchas

2020-05-10 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
via MacVisionaries > wrote: > >     I am on a friend's Verizon plan. Last week Verizon made changes >  which apparently killed my access t my account (cell service still >  working). Every tie I redid my account, it would go away again after >  midnight. > >     I thin

Re: Captchas

2020-05-10 Thread Karen Lewellen
ould go away again after > midnight. > > I think it is due to the captchas they are using. I saw a button for > it on the iPhone, don't recall the exact text. Nothing happened when > I clicked on it abd I was able to complete the registration and > access my ac

Re: Captchas

2020-05-10 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
account, it would go away again after midnight. I think it is due to the captchas they are using. I saw a button for it on the iPhone, don't recall the exact text. Nothing happened when I clicked on it abd I was able to complete the registration and access my account. But I suspect it will go away

Re: Captchas

2020-05-10 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
y account (cell service still working). Every > tie I redid my account, it would go away again after midnight. > > I think it is due to the captchas they are using. I saw a button for it on > the iPhone, don't recall the exact text. Nothing happened when I clicked on >

Captchas

2020-05-09 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
I am on a friend's Verizon plan. Last week Verizon made changes which apparently killed my access t my account (cell service still working). Every tie I redid my account, it would go away again after midnight. I think it is due to the captchas they are using. I saw a button

Re: Captchas

2018-05-12 Thread Jessica Moss
screen and tell you when to click. > > Sent from my IPhone > > >> On May 11, 2018, at 9:01 PM, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> Phil, yes, captchas. Its an acronym for "completely automated public Turing >> test to tell computer

Re: Captchas

2018-05-12 Thread Phil Halton
gt; Phil, yes, captchas. Its an acronym for "completely automated public Turing > test to tell computers and humans apart". The issue apparently is that what > you refer to is going away in favor of the ones that have 6 pictures. For > example, you are asked to select a

Re: Captchas

2018-05-11 Thread E.T.
Phil, yes, captchas. Its an acronym for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart". The issue apparently is that what you refer to is going away in favor of the ones that have 6 pictures. For example, you are asked to select all pictures that ha

Re: Captchas

2018-05-11 Thread Karen Lewellen
I Imagine the reference is to the image verification tests some sites use instead of the non graphical intuitive captchas. Karen On Fri, 11 May 2018, Phil Halton wrote: If you mean captures on your Mac, and you have an iPhone, then what I do is to use the Be My Eyes app and have

Re: Captchas

2018-05-11 Thread Phil Halton
Is anyone using Rumola? How well does it work? What does it cost to use? I > took a quick look but did not find that information. It probably cannot > handle the captchas that uses pictures. Is there anything for that type? > > From E.T.'s Keyboard... > ancient.ali...@icloud.com &g

Captchas

2018-05-11 Thread E.T.
Is anyone using Rumola? How well does it work? What does it cost to use? I took a quick look but did not find that information. It probably cannot handle the captchas that uses pictures. Is there anything for that type? From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe

Re: solving captchas on the mac

2016-03-03 Thread d . prater
t;> Hello all, >> Is there a software package that will allow me to solve captchas on the mac >> for free? Thanks, >> Brian >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have

Re: solving captchas on the mac

2016-03-03 Thread Anders Holmberg
t use the audio version if available > hth > > On 3/3/16, Brian Howerton <bshowert...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello all, >> Is there a software package that will allow me to solve captchas on the mac >> for free? Thanks, >> Brian >> >> -- >> T

Re: solving captchas on the mac

2016-03-03 Thread E.T.
he mac in the future. Untill then, I would just use the audio version if available hth On 3/3/16, Brian Howerton <bshowert...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello all, Is there a software package that will allow me to solve captchas on the mac for free? Thanks, Brian -- The following information is impor

Re: solving captchas on the mac

2016-03-03 Thread E.T.
an install webvisum in Firefox and that doesn't excellent job. I use webvisum anytime I need to solve a captcha on a website. Sent from my IPhone On Mar 3, 2016, at 8:17 AM, Brian Howerton <bshowert...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello all, Is there a software package that will allow me to solve cap

Re: solving captchas on the mac

2016-03-03 Thread Phil Halton
a captcha on a website. Sent from my IPhone > On Mar 3, 2016, at 8:17 AM, Brian Howerton <bshowert...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > Is there a software package that will allow me to solve captchas on the mac > for free? Thanks, > Brian > > -- > The followi

Re: solving captchas on the mac

2016-03-03 Thread Carter Temm
, this is a new project that hopes to bring capchas for the blind to the mac in the future. Untill then, I would just use the audio version if available hth On 3/3/16, Brian Howerton <bshowert...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > Is there a software package that will allow me to solve captcha

solving captchas on the mac

2016-03-03 Thread Brian Howerton
Hello all, Is there a software package that will allow me to solve captchas on the mac for free? Thanks, Brian -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel

Photo captchas

2016-02-01 Thread E.T.
When I tried to submit a support request to Carbon Copy Cloner, I encountered the worst kind of captcha. A mumber of photos from which you select the ones that have something in common, like street signs, trees, etc. Has any of you been able to deal with this? I sure would like to

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-23 Thread Faisal ali
the trend for those are quite ominous. Bots are capturing all captchas and recording all of them. what is happening now is that these saved captchas are being placed on randomly created websites and domaines where actual human beings are solving them thereby the bots getting the proper

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-23 Thread Brent Harding
- From: Faisal ali To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 11:56 AM Subject: Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas the trend for those are quite ominous. Bots are capturing all captchas and recording all of them. what is happening now

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-23 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Hmm, not so sure about that. I know the audio captchas I've played with are a string of 6-8 random letters or numbers strung together with different voices speaking each letter at different pitches and durations overlaid with noise and background speech. I suspect nearly every one is different

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-23 Thread Faisal ali
to get passed it. for this very reason, companies like google are looking for alternative methods of verifying whether you are human. I have sighted family members and colleagues who also complain that the captcha images are very difficult to read and the audio captchas are extremely difficult

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-23 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Yup, I agree that the arms race has reached the point where it's become difficult for real people to pass either the visual or audio captchas because they have to be scrambled so much to knock out the bots. As far as the number of combinations, just the 26 letter and 10 numbers (36 glyphs

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-22 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
captcha? Gabe On Jan 10, 2015, at 5:57 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com mailto:sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com wrote: Thought you guys would want to see the response I received from Amazon regarding the captchas on the gift card page. Hello, Amazon.com http://amazon.com

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-22 Thread Joseph
Amazon regarding the captchas on the gift card page. Hello, Amazon.com http://amazon.com/ implements CAPTCHA on several features on Amazon.com http://amazon.com/ such as password changes. Users are presented with a picture, and asked to copy the text string in the picture into a text entry

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-22 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
: Thought you guys would want to see the response I received from Amazon regarding the captchas on the gift card page. Hello, Amazon.com http://amazon.com/ implements CAPTCHA on several features on Amazon.com http://amazon.com/ such as password changes. Users are presented with a picture

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-21 Thread Bill Gallik
...@shellworld.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2015 10:56 PM Subject: Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas If memory serves, you met with this using the app, is that correct? If so, are others checking the same way? Kare On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Sarai Bucciarelli

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-15 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
you guys would want to see the response I received from Amazon regarding the captchas on the gift card page. Hello, Amazon.com http://amazon.com/ implements CAPTCHA on several features on Amazon.com http://amazon.com/ such as password changes. Users are presented with a picture

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-12 Thread Ray Foret Jr
browsers. The people at Amazon said some parts of their site use captchas now. Go figure. On Jan 11, 2015, at 8:47 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: First of all, I have redeemed several gift cards from Amazon and there was no captcha. I thought maybe it had changed recently when I read

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-12 Thread Chris G
with different web browsers. The people at Amazon said some parts of their site use captchas now. Go figure. On Jan 11, 2015, at 8:47 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: First of all, I have redeemed several gift cards from Amazon and there was no captcha. I thought maybe it had changed

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-12 Thread The Believer
browsers. The people at Amazon said some parts of their site use captchas now. Go figure. On Jan 11, 2015, at 8:47 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com mailto:cah4...@icloud.com wrote: First of all, I have redeemed several gift cards from Amazon and there was no captcha. I thought maybe it had

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-12 Thread Lorie McCloud
of Swagbucking and m Amazon cards are sent via email, so that isn’t the issue. I’ve redeemed Amazon cards for years without issues. Saturday was the first time I’ve ever seen this. I even tried with different web browsers. The people at Amazon said some parts of their site use captchas now. Go

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-12 Thread Lorie McCloud
for years without issues. Saturday was the first time I’ve ever seen this. I even tried with different web browsers. The people at Amazon said some parts of their site use captchas now. Go figure. On Jan 11, 2015, at 8:47 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com mailto:cah4...@icloud.com wrote

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-12 Thread Gabe Griffith
Hi, Do they have an option for an audio captcha? Gabe On Jan 10, 2015, at 5:57 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com wrote: Thought you guys would want to see the response I received from Amazon regarding the captchas on the gift card page. Hello, Amazon.com implements

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-11 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Not to mention it is not convenient to call them each time you want to redeem a gift card! I mean, come on! You hae to log in to your account with your user name and password, a captcha is just over kill! On Jan 10, 2015, at 9:55 PM, Gabe Griffith gabrielgriff...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-11 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
captchas now. Go figure. On Jan 11, 2015, at 8:47 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: First of all, I have redeemed several gift cards from Amazon and there was no captcha. I thought maybe it had changed recently when I read this thread but I went to the website and I see no captcha

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
in addition to username and password is overkill, at least in some situations. It is true that Amazon does require captchas in some instances; I rarely run into this on Amazon but I think when you set up an account and perhaps when you change your password you might have to enter a captcha, but I'm

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-11 Thread Karen Lewellen
for years without issues. Saturday was the first time I???ve ever seen this. I even tried with different web browsers. The people at Amazon said some parts of their site use captchas now. Go figure. On Jan 11, 2015, at 8:47 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: First of all, I have

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-11 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Amazon cards for years without issues. Saturday was the first time I’ve ever seen this. I even tried with different web browsers. The people at Amazon said some parts of their site use captchas now. Go figure. On Jan 11, 2015, at 8:47 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: First of all

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-11 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
a lot of Swagbucking and m Amazon cards are sent via email, so that isn’t the issue. I’ve redeemed Amazon cards for years without issues. Saturday was the first time I’ve ever seen this. I even tried with different web browsers. The people at Amazon said some parts of their site use captchas

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
of Swagbucking and m Amazon cards are sent via email, so that isn’t the issue. I’ve redeemed Amazon cards for years without issues. Saturday was the first time I’ve ever seen this. I even tried with different web browsers. The people at Amazon said some parts of their site use captchas now. Go figure

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-11 Thread Lorie McCloud
with different web browsers. The people at Amazon said some parts of their site use captchas now. Go figure. On Jan 11, 2015, at 8:47 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: First of all, I have redeemed several gift cards from Amazon and there was no captcha. I thought maybe it had

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-11 Thread Lorie McCloud
browsers. The people at Amazon said some parts of their site use captchas now. Go figure. On Jan 11, 2015, at 8:47 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: First of all, I have redeemed several gift cards from Amazon and there was no captcha. I thought maybe it had changed recently when I

Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-10 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Thought you guys would want to see the response I received from Amazon regarding the captchas on the gift card page. Hello, Amazon.com http://amazon.com/ implements CAPTCHA on several features on Amazon.com http://amazon.com/ such as password changes. Users are presented with a picture

Re: Response from Amazon regarding captchas

2015-01-10 Thread Gabe Griffith
Hi, Thanks for this information Sarai. I'm sending it to an accessibility lawyer I know here in California to get her take on whether or not this is an acceptable solution and what further action can be taken. I for one am not comfortable with this solution as it would mean giving an amazon

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2013-05-23 Thread Ricardo Walker
results, or what? Wouldn't know, so it's worth asking. :) Greetings, Nina On Saturday, September 10, 2011 9:55:12 PM UTC+2, Anouk wrote: Hi everyone, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona and ie (but often there was no operator online) or webvisum and firefox

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2013-05-23 Thread Devin Prater
, September 10, 2011 9:55:12 PM UTC+2, Anouk wrote: Hi everyone, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona and ie (but often there was no operator online) or webvisum and firefox. Is there a way to solve visual captchas as a blind person on the mac? As far as I know

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2013-05-23 Thread Maria Joe Chapman
, or what? Wouldn't know, so it's worth asking. :) Greetings, Nina On Saturday, September 10, 2011 9:55:12 PM UTC+2, Anouk wrote: Hi everyone, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona and ie (but often there was no operator online) or webvisum and firefox. Is there a way

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2013-05-23 Thread Devin Prater
, 2011 9:55:12 PM UTC+2, Anouk wrote: Hi everyone, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona and ie (but often there was no operator online) or webvisum and firefox. Is there a way to solve visual captchas as a blind person on the mac? As far as I know firefox is still

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2013-05-23 Thread Maria Joe Chapman
asking. :) Greetings, Nina On Saturday, September 10, 2011 9:55:12 PM UTC+2, Anouk wrote: Hi everyone, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona and ie (but often there was no operator online) or webvisum and firefox. Is there a way to solve visual captchas as a blind

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2013-05-23 Thread Devin Prater
, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona and ie (but often there was no operator online) or webvisum and firefox. Is there a way to solve visual captchas as a blind person on the mac? As far as I know firefox is still not accessible on the mac. Thanks in advance

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2013-05-22 Thread Nee
, so it's worth asking. :) Greetings, Nina On Saturday, September 10, 2011 9:55:12 PM UTC+2, Anouk wrote: Hi everyone, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona and ie (but often there was no operator online) or webvisum and firefox. Is there a way to solve visual

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2013-05-22 Thread Brandon Olivares
worth asking. :) Greetings, Nina On Saturday, September 10, 2011 9:55:12 PM UTC+2, Anouk wrote: Hi everyone, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona and ie (but often there was no operator online) or webvisum and firefox. Is there a way to solve visual captchas as a blind

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2013-05-22 Thread Brian Fischler
, or what? Wouldn't know, so it's worth asking. :) Greetings, Nina On Saturday, September 10, 2011 9:55:12 PM UTC+2, Anouk wrote: Hi everyone, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona and ie (but often there was no operator online) or webvisum and firefox. Is there a way

Re: captchas

2013-02-23 Thread Kerri
being discussed were www.skipinput.com which employs an add-on in either Firefox and safari and charges 99 cents for 50 captchas which expire after a year and www.webvisum.com which requires you to request an invitation before you can register and employs an add-on for firefox. -- Cheryl

Re: captchas

2013-02-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
it. On 2013-02-22, at 9:37 PM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: The other alternatives being discussed were www.skipinput.com which employs an add-on in either Firefox and safari and charges 99 cents for 50 captchas which expire after a year and www.webvisum.com which requires you to request

Re: captchas

2013-02-23 Thread Kerri
alternatives being discussed were www.skipinput.com which employs an add-on in either Firefox and safari and charges 99 cents for 50 captchas which expire after a year and www.webvisum.com which requires you to request an invitation before you can register and employs an add-on for firefox

Re: captchas

2013-02-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
: The other alternatives being discussed were www.skipinput.com which employs an add-on in either Firefox and safari and charges 99 cents for 50 captchas which expire after a year and www.webvisum.com which requires you to request an invitation before you can register and employs an add

Re: captchas

2013-02-23 Thread Kirsten Edmondson
: The other alternatives being discussed were www.skipinput.com which employs an add-on in either Firefox and safari and charges 99 cents for 50 captchas which expire after a year and www.webvisum.com which requires you to request an invitation before you can register and employs an add

captchas

2013-02-22 Thread Kerri
to actually read it, and so if it is unclear, less are likely to do so, and the result is prone to be less accurate. We are always trying to find ways to improve the service, but for the moment there seems to be no better way. For the easiest captchas, it comes back very quickly, but for the harder

Re: captchas

2013-02-22 Thread Brandon Olivares
WebVisum has an algorithm to read the captchas. ZCaptcha turns the screenshot over to Amazon Mechanical Turk so that actual people may read the captchas. God bless, Brandon Olivares Azavia Technologies ZCaptcha — The Captcha Reader Christ's Little Flock — Jesus is the Good Shepherd Luke 12:32

RE: captchas

2013-02-22 Thread Jed Barton
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: captchas Hello, I did not realize it was people reading them. Is that how it is with web vissum? On 2013-02-22, at 7:43 PM, Brandon Olivares programmer2...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Sometimes if the screenshot is not very clear, it'll take a longer

Re: captchas

2013-02-22 Thread Kerri
: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kerri Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 10:47 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: captchas Hello, I did not realize it was people reading them. Is that how it is with web vissum? On 2013-02-22

Re: captchas

2013-02-22 Thread Brandon Olivares
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but assuming you're referring to ZCaptcha. Go to www.azavia.com and click register. Once you are registered, you have to refill your account to have funds for the captchas, which are currently $0.16/captcha. Then go to www.azavia.com/zcaptcha to submit

Re: captchas

2013-02-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
The other alternatives being discussed were www.skipinput.com which employs an add-on in either Firefox and safari and charges 99 cents for 50 captchas which expire after a year and www.webvisum.com which requires you to request an invitation before you can register and employs an add

w3c discussion: Example of accessible CAPTCHAS that work well, was the blindneednot apply

2012-10-08 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi all, sharing this given the talk about what works does not work and how beneficial those things are for anyone. Karen Subject: w3c discussion: Example of accessible CAPTCHAS that work well all, Revising this discussion about captchas reminded me that we had a similar one on the w3c list

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-11-13 Thread Teresa Cochran
10, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: Hi everyone, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona and ie (but often there was no operator online) or webvisum and firefox. Is there a way to solve visual captchas as a blind person on the mac? As far as I know firefox

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-11-12 Thread Johnny Angel!
in the VOICE-OVER cursor via mail. Best wishes, Jonathan On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: Hi everyone, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona and ie (but often there was no operator online) or webvisum and firefox. Is there a way to solve visual

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-17 Thread Johnny Angel!
captchas with mac and safari I must agree, many sites are now audio captcha enabled but a lot of them are pretty hard to understand. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 10, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Cody wrote: I am wondering the same thing and as far as I know ff is still not accessible. Fortunately many sites

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-13 Thread Chris Blouch
Wonder how that holds up to a speech recognition like Dragon? If it's easy for you it might be easy for an algorithm. CB On 9/12/11 11:05 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: Personally, I don't think that audio captchas aren't that bad. For example, when I used the OS whose name we can't say, when I

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-13 Thread Rachel magario
, Chris Blouch wrote: Wonder how that holds up to a speech recognition like Dragon? If it's easy for you it might be easy for an algorithm. CB On 9/12/11 11:05 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: Personally, I don't think that audio captchas aren't that bad. For example, when I used the OS whose

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-13 Thread Chris Blouch
or the cognitive load to solve the captchas will increase to the point where real people can't solve them (already happening). Either scenario ends badly for those trying to protect the integrity of their content sites. In the meantime, just saying the current stuff doesn't work doesn't help because nobody

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Adie
Guys, I am fed up of audio captcha. My Member of Parliament currently has a question in to the UK Prime Minister about use of audio capcha on government websites. I know it's a drag, but we need to challenge these things every time we come across them. I was on a site the other day which had a

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Rachel magario
Eric and all following this thread, I am not sure why they think that. Perhaps, because it is claimed to be the most accessible for jaws and for orca too? Also it is not owned my apple or Microsoft. The volunteers who work for open source, usually dislike the oppressive proprietary companies.

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
recently while submitting my rss feed to a new directory i ran across a captcha i had never heard of before. it gave you a list of six check boxes and asked you to check which ones were birds. I liked it so much i went back to see what would happen. the next time it asked which of the

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Now, seems to me that's one very correct approach to take to the matter. I trust you commended them for there forward thinking on the captcha matter? Seems to me such providers, site developers ETC deserve to be emulated. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Teresa Cochran
Yes, Wordpress uses the equations for capchas on their sites. I love this kind of solution, being accessible to all, or at least more folks. Teresa On Sep 12, 2011, at 1:04 AM, Adie wrote: Guys, I am fed up of audio captcha. My Member of Parliament currently has a question in to the UK

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Teresa Cochran
That's so great. :) More of those, please! :) Teresa On Sep 12, 2011, at 6:58 AM, Maxwell Ivey Jr. wrote: recently while submitting my rss feed to a new directory i ran across a captcha i had never heard of before. it gave you a list of six check boxes and asked you to check which ones

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Chris Blouch
to have left-option-X send the image in the VOICE-OVER cursor via mail. Best wishes, Jonathan On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: Hi everyone, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona and ie (but often there was no operator online) or webvisum and firefox

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Chris Blouch
As I had mentioned in previous emails, the root issue is a philisophical one. Good app developers want to write their code once. So when it came to accessibility the Mozilla folks went to the open standard IAccessible2 APIs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAccessible2 That way any platform

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Rachel magario
Agree Chris, I work with developers every day, as well ass with the business side. the true is that there is always things to implement. but I really think the matter is philosophical, if in matter of principal accessibility was there as a principal from the start of RND and in the business

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Rachel magario
Radix wrote: Hi everyone, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona and ie (but often there was no operator online) or webvisum and firefox. Is there a way to solve visual captchas as a blind person on the mac? As far as I know firefox is still not accessible on the mac

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Chris Blouch
cracked and it's turned into an arms race. Eventually the algorithms will be sophisticated enough that they will either mimic human behavior undetectably or the cognitive load to solve the captchas will increase to the point where real people can't solve them (already happening). Either scenario

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Rachel magario
will be sophisticated enough that they will either mimic human behavior undetectably or the cognitive load to solve the captchas will increase to the point where real people can't solve them (already happening). Either scenario ends badly for those trying to protect the integrity of their content sites

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Teresa Cochran
and audio recognition are about the only two that haven't been cracked and it's turned into an arms race. Eventually the algorithms will be sophisticated enough that they will either mimic human behavior undetectably or the cognitive load to solve the captchas will increase to the point where real

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Francisco Salvador Crespo
will be sophisticated enough that they will either mimic human behavior undetectably or the cognitive load to solve the captchas will increase to the point where real people can't solve them (already happening). Either scenario ends badly for those trying to protect the integrity of their content sites

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Personally, I don't think that audio captchas aren't that bad. For example, when I used the OS whose name we can't say, when I wanted to demo the Acapela voices, they gave me both a visual and audio captcha to choose from. The Audio Captcha used Acapela Heather to speak the numbers so I could

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread louie
So is that OS CPM? On Sep 12, 2011, at 8:05 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: Personally, I don't think that audio captchas aren't that bad. For example, when I used the OS whose name we can't say, when I wanted to demo the Acapela voices, they gave me both a visual and audio captcha to choose from

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Rachel magario
but there are still plenty that don't On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: Hi everyone, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona and ie (but often there was no operator online) or webvisum and firefox. Is there a way to solve visual captchas as a blind person

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Rachel magario
cursor via mail. Best wishes, Jonathan On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: Hi everyone, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona and ie (but often there was no operator online) or webvisum and firefox. Is there a way to solve visual captchas as a blind

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Anouk Radix
, Jonathan On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: Hi everyone, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona and ie (but often there was no operator online) or webvisum and firefox. Is there a way to solve visual captchas as a blind person on the mac? As far as I

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread trahern culver
hey gang if your looking for good web brouses for mac try icab and lightening kind regards trahern -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Did you test this for accessibility? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Sep 11, 2011, at 10:30 AM, trahern culver wrote: hey gang if your looking for good web brouses for mac

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Teresa Cochran
The only downside to Lightning is that it's webkit-based as well. It's pretty darn fast, though. Teresa On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:30 AM, trahern culver wrote: hey gang if your looking for good web brouses for mac try icab and lightening kind regards trahern -- You received this message

RE: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Sarah May
@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anouk Radix Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 12:23 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari I must agree, many sites are now audio captcha enabled but a lot of them are pretty hard to understand. Greetings, Anouk

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-11 Thread Eric Oyen
I find that rather interesting. now why would the general public (and business professionals) get the impression that mozilla was the most accessible web browser for any OS? sure it works well with windoweeyes and jaws in the windows platform. it also works mostly with orca in linux. it does

solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-10 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi everyone, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona and ie (but often there was no operator online) or webvisum and firefox. Is there a way to solve visual captchas as a blind person on the mac? As far as I know firefox is still not accessible on the mac. Thanks

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-10 Thread Cody
I am wondering the same thing and as far as I know ff is still not accessible. Fortunately many sites have the audio captcha but there are still plenty that don't On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: Hi everyone, On the pc I could solve visual only captchas with either solona

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