Re: [gentoo-user] Getting past captchas with vision issues.

[Dale]

Michael wrote:
> On Tuesday, 29 September 2020 03:05:23 BST Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:
>> On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 20:50 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>> Anyone find a way around those things yet?
>> I've had mixed (~75%) success with Captcha Buster.
>>
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/
>>
>> The general idea is that the addon will try to use the audio captcha,
>> with the sound piped into a text-to-speech engine.  That way, you
>> (ideally) get through a captcha with a single click and a couple of
>> seconds waiting.
> Some captcha mechanisms offer a button to translate text-to-speech
> (accessibility feature) even without a browser addon, but I don't think all
> do.
>
> You may be able to zoom in (magnify the browser window content) and still
> retain enough clarity to see what the captcha contains.  To zoom in you can
> navigate to the main menu View > Zoom > Zoom In, or press Ctrl++, or hold the
> control button and scroll up.  You can reset the size to default with Ctrl+0.
>
> Regarding Seamonkey, I expect Firefox plus Thunderbird would be a close enough
> match in terms of functionality, but I haven't used Seamonkey in many years
> now to know the current feature set.


I use the zoom thing quite a lot.  Most websites are set to 125% or
something.  Usually, I hit the button twice.  Even the email pane that
shows subject, from and etc in Seamonkey is enlarged with three button
hits.  It helps in a fair amount of cases.  I just wish it would save
when I close and reopen.  It resets when I close Seamonkey. 

What I've noticed a lot of lately, images that are fuzzy.  It's like
they are low resolution photos or something.  Even with zoom and such,
it doesn't help.  Those are usually the sites I end up closing the tab
for. 

I tried Thunderbird a while back.  While it is supposed to be like email
in Seamonkey, it isn't.  I ran into several issues and google turned up
info that it is the way Thunderbird works and they won't change it, nor
can the user.  If Seamonkey dies, I have no idea what I'm going to do
for emails.  I got emails going back to when I first started using the
internet.  Heck, I may have the first email I ever sent.  o_O  Whatever
I use, I hope I can import or just copy them over.  Otherwise, I'm going
to be unhappy.  Makes me think back to the hal days.  O_O 

Dale

:-)  :-)