Ah, hey, cool, I sure know what you mean with respect to covering the costs and, well, there's definitely insufficient participation on the part of blind people too. I think the blind community isn't rising up to its potential at all with respect to advocacy.
Please visit http://BlindWebAccess.com and sign the petition asking Yahoo! to make their CAPTCHA accessible! Darrell Shandrow - Accessibility Evangelist Information should be accessible to us without need of translation by another person. Blind Access Journal blog and podcast: http://www.blindaccessjournal.com Check out high quality telecommunications services at http://ld.net/?nu7i ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 6:14 PM Subject: Re: verification messages on sites Well it's a bit to late to get a com domain but I'll see what I can do. Maybe my podcast can cover this . SA&G : Hey Sarah! : : Great! I've just signed it and posted it to Blind Access Journal. : Consider getting a good .com domain name and, if at all possible, go : on over to prweb.com and post a press release. Of course, we both : need to find ways to do much more to promote our respective CAPTCHA : petitions, but I feel these two steps are critical starting points. : : : Please visit http://BlindWebAccess.com and sign the petition asking : Yahoo! to make their CAPTCHA accessible! : Darrell Shandrow - Accessibility Evangelist : Information should be accessible to us without need of translation by : another person. : Blind Access Journal blog and podcast: : http://www.blindaccessjournal.com Check out high quality : telecommunications services at http://ld.net/?nu7i ----- Original : Message ----- : From: "Sarah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> : Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 9:36 AM : Subject: Re: verification messages on sites : : : I have a petition going for myspace for the captcha thing. it is : getting good signatures so far. Look for it on my site at : www.marrie.org. : : SA&G : :: Darrell and Mark, :: :: The synchronous part of this is that I just ran into the same :: problem, with My Space that you did (Mark), but, I could not, :: apparently, find a reasonable way to contact them, in their contact :: link! I surfed around the website many times, without finding a way :: to contact them by phone, or by E mail! One would think, that since :: they are now under the Google umbrella (I think?), that they would :: have run into inquiries, before now! Any ideas, on how to contact :: them? :: :: Thanks, :: :: -Mac- :: ----- Original Message ----- :: From: "Darrell Shandrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :: To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> :: Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 8:26 AM :: Subject: Re: verification messages on sites :: :: :: Hello Mark, :: :: We advocate, advocate and advocate some more! Contact them and ask :: for an accessible alternative, such as audio CAPTCHA or text based :: challenge, that reasonably accomodates blind and visually impaired :: users. Please also sign the Yahoo! petition indicated below. :: :: Thanks. :: :: Please visit http://BlindWebAccess.com and sign the petition asking :: Yahoo! to make their CAPTCHA accessible! :: Darrell Shandrow - Accessibility Evangelist :: Information should be accessible to us without need of translation by :: another person. :: Blind Access Journal blog and podcast: :: http://www.blindaccessjournal.com Check out high quality :: telecommunications services at http://ld.net/?nu7i ----- Original :: Message ----- :: From: "mark bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :: To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> :: Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 8:19 AM :: Subject: verification messages on sites :: :: :: I have just tried to register with youtube and myspace and come up :: against their verification process of retyping letters from a box. :: If we cannot see these letters what do we do? :: :: Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... :: http://www.pc-audio.org :: :: To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: :: :: :: Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... :: http://www.pc-audio.org :: :: To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: :: :: :: Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... :: http://www.pc-audio.org :: :: To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : : Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... : http://www.pc-audio.org : : To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : : Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... : http://www.pc-audio.org : : To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
