Google, PRWeb and the Audio CAPTCHA
January 2, 2008 Posted by Al Castle
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Categories: Castle, Insider, Marketing, PRWeb, Puter Stuff, Web Design & Dev
Darrell Shandrow of Blind Access Journal made a celebratory post of his many accomplishments this year (including marriage - congratulations Darrell!) and was kinda enough to mention the hard work last year that went into quickly making PRWeb’s CAPTCHA enabled contact forms more accessible to visually impaired and blind users.
January 2006 - PRWeb makes their visual verification scheme accessible in less than one week of the request! We thank Al Castle, the company’s Chief Technology Officer, for his amazing communication and responsiveness.
See the InternetNews article for more details including Google dropping the ball (repeatedly).
Unfortunately it appears, as of this writing, that the audio alternative is no longer available on the PRWeb “Email Contact Form”. I know after I left PRWeb there was a lot of work going on in upgrading the impressively complicated infrastructure which runs the press release juggernaut. It is perhaps a simple oversight (no pun intended) and I’m sure the team at PRWeb is on it.
All the best in your endeavors for 2008 Darrell.
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I remember that! You rocked. (I mean, you rock in the present sense. Not past. But you rocked harder when you worked with us. I’m just sayin’.)
No way. I rock just as hard now, if not harder, louder, and longer. Oh yeah.