[access-uk] Re: Please sign the Google Visual Verification Petition
- From: "James O'Dell" <jamesodell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:46:54 -0000
Sorry everyone, I forwarded this without checking that the link worked. It
appears to be broken, and I can't find the petition by searching for it, so who
knows!
Once again, apologies.
James
----- Original Message -----
From: James O'Dell
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 11:40 AM
Subject: Please sign the Google Visual Verification Petition
---- 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.
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