thanks for the speakup and sonar ideas.

[Karen Lewellen]

hi,
This I knew. so of course such is off limits for all speach?


On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Alex Snow wrote:

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> Hi.
> The reason that most companies don't use email verification is because
> it defeates the purpose of the number varification. The reason these
> numbers are used, and that the image isn't clear enough to be
> recognised by ocr is that they don't want computers to automatically
> create an account. if email was used, all the software would have to
> do is parse the email and grab the varification url.
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2004
> at 01:29:57AM -0400, Erik Heil wrote:
>> Hi their.  No, varification utilizing graphic immages is not at all
>> accessible.  Actually, now that you point it out, the services that
>> utilize this mechanism actually made it a lot more complicated.  Similar
>> systems exist, but instead of using graphic images, they simply will send
>> the user e-mail as part or as a complete verification sollution.  This is
>> a lot better, as it doesn't require the use of pixelated immages, and is
>> also accessible.  Speaking of which, what can we do as blind persons to
>> change this behavior?  Because if this contiues, I can see a serious
>> problem in uu being able to access crucial information.  If any of you
>> have suggestions on waht we can do, post them to the list.  B/c I'm
>> certainly interested in what can be done.  Yahoo! is not the only company
>> which seems to do this.  Paypal does this, but at least they provide an
>> audio interface to the numbers or characters which are to be entered in
>> such boxes.  Industry-wide though, their should be a solution.  Ok guys,
>> I'm done and I'm off my loap box right now.  Its just that it frustrates
>> me a lot.
>>
>> --
>> Erik Heil <eheil at va3duk.serveftp.com>
>> Phone: (865) 673-0542
>>
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