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Archive for February, 2010

Webvisum is a Firefox plugin to help with Captcha images. It does far more than solving captias, to include allowing community lables of graphics. For example 1 person labels graphics on a page which can then be shared with all webvisum users and some OCR capabilities of images which are not captias, etc.

For more info visit www.webvisum.com

Captcha images are those images that are displayed on a website that a visitor must type into a box to show that they are "human". Many websites use these to prevent automated submissions for things like blog comments, account creation and a whole slew of instances.

Apparently these sites think that you have to have "normal vision" in order to be "human". These images can be a huge annoyance even if you do have "normal vision". But for people who are blind or visually impaired the can make the difference between being able to access the internet independently or not.

Some sites offer an audio option for people with vision impairment but these can be very difficult to understand. If you’re sighted and have never tried the audio captcha, try it sometime.

Now thanks to the folks at solona.net there’s another option available to people who are unable to read the captcha image.

Solona is a suite of Internet-based tools that empower visually impaired people to independently negotiate inaccessible objects. They enable people to overcome obstacles that are encountered on a regular basis due to
inaccessible images and web page design. Each tool within Solona is Human-Powered. In other words, everytime a user submits an image to be solved, a sighted human operator is on the other side to translate the image. By harnessing human power to solve inaccessible images, Solona can provide higher quality and more accurate
solutions than any fully automated program or service.

Solona is a non-profit corporation registered in Texas. There is no charge for using any of their services.

Visit solona.net today

A blind chef is cooking up a storm in an upscale Chicago Restaurant.

She wheelds a knife like a ninja as she cooks up her famous dishes at this upscale restaurant in Chicago.

She is not afraid of the knives, or the fire, and she proves that she can cook up a mean dish just like her sighted peers do.  She doesn’t let her blindness get in her way, and you can see that when you watch the video below.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6160732n&tag=mncol;lst;1