Saturday, January 21, 2006
please sign the Google word verification petition
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. 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.
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. 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.
Simply go to the site, fill in your name, e-mail address and any comments you'd like to send to google. 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!
¶ 2:41 PM 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!
