Google Word Verification Accessibility

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We, the undersigned, ask Google Inc. to "do no evil" and follow their mission statement to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" by promptly adding accessibility to their visual word verification scheme so that the blind and visually impaired are allowed to fully participate in all products and services offered by the company on terms of equality with our sighted peers.

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  • Kathryn W
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  • Kathy L
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  • Ioana G
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    • As great as your web services are it would be only fitting to keep up the standards and make the word verification available for blind users. Thanks!
  • Dori V. M
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    • EQUAL ACCESSIBILITY! SUCCESS WITH ACCESS!
  • Jennifer G. P
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    • I think this would help a lot i just wish i had my friends here to sign it oh wel i will send this out. Goode job
  • KararaBasu
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    • This nasty word verification thing is just annoying!
  • sf
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    • sining this Petition, itself is quite difficult! anyway I must appreciate this step!
  • Leslie S
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    • I would sign this a thousand times but am restrained by my sense of ethics!!
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  • Geoff S
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  • Vlad D
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    • I totally agreed with every word in the petition and decided to add my signature. It's shameful that these things continue to exist. I still hope that oneday, disabled people will not be ignored anymore.
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  • Elizabeth L
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    • accessibility is a necessity, not an option!
  • Gary F
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  • Trevor P
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    • This is something that has hampered our lives for quite a number of years and it's time that blind people actively take a part in making the internet as well as life a level playing field.
  • Bettye K
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  • martin w
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    • HI Google. I like your general website, it's one of the best on which to search for information as a blind computer user. please don't mess things up by not including aaccessibility in your verification systems. thanks.
  • lawrence a
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    • When are sighted people going to wake up and smell the coffee???? we as blind people should have the rite to use all web sites with out a bunc h of crap that don't work with our screan readers cordially lap-dog
  • Ganja G
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    • Use audio or nothing for captias, you have been warned
  • Steve A. P
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    • As a long-time Google user, it is frustrating to encounter the inaccessible word verification captcha for using special services such as Google Groups. Although not a universal solution, audio verification such as already implemented by Microsoft and PayPal would make Google accessible to the large majority of people who have visual limitations.
  • Sheila S
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    • I'm blind and can't participate in many internet activities as this required process of copying characters I can't see is currently not possible for those of us who must depend on screen reading software.
  • tracey
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    • not accessible to blind people
  • Scott M
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    • As a professional person, I use the google search engine daily. Your advertisers should know that your graphic word verification scheme means that I cannot use all of Google's products, and therefore all advertising messages are not being seen by customers in the blind or visually impaired market. This market segment should not be ignored.
  • Robert T
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    • Please provide an alternative verification scheme that does not shut out the blind and visually impaired. Having to call customer service and sometimes wait for several days in not acceptable.
  • Marlaina L
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    • Help maintain the status of online capability as one of the single greatest tools to level the playing field of life between those who are blind and those who see.
  • Cheryl C
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  • Amanda B
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    • There should be another option for visually impaired people to use instead of graphics
  • Sue B
  • Donald R. J. A
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    • Limiting access to a customer base because of a lack of consideration of the special skills and technologies of others is poor business sense. Change your sense!
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