[access-uk] Re: signing up to Twitter
- From: Chris Hallsworth <christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:08:38 -0000
What about Firefox and Webvisum?
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Chris Hallsworth
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Wilson" <barkingbabs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 1:19 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: signing up to Twitter
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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