Hi Cody,

Welcome, boy, do I know what you mean about visual problems with
letters, words, paragraphs. I knew that I had sustained injury to my
CNS in an auto accident in 1991, but I fell through the cracks from
doctors that did not diagnose me right.

The more I find out about my injuries from my auto accident, the more
I am amazed at Helen's glasses, and that they were a G-D sent to me
when I first started to use them. I could see better (process more
with my brain). For about three years they helped with my seizure
disorder, but now my seizure disorder is in question to be a form of
severe myoclonic tics. I await doctors. In any event, because of these
processing problems I can't read certain types of fonts, words,
paragraphs, and Yahoo's is one of the most notorious for me. One time,
I had to keep typing a new code, each time different, because that is
how they set up their security if you don't type the first code right.
What a nightmare -- I was stuck for about a half an hour!!!!

Yes, it is interesting when I speak to people who share similar
complaints about visual problems...that are severe...but don't do
anything because their eye doctor(s) did not refer them to have their
eyes checked for Irlen Syndrome. It should be part of their eye exams.
Just think how many lives would be enhanced. One day...

Lu



--- In glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com, "Cody B."
<codeman38@g...> wrote:
> Greetings... just found this group. I've been screened for Irlen
> syndrome this year and
> appear to have it; though they still don't get rid of all my visual
> distortions, the tinted
> lenses I got definitely help *lessen* my visual quirks and make
> things somewhat easier to
> read and see.
>
> Anyway, I mention my new-member status because of the annoying hurdle
> Yahoo makes
> all new group members jump through. You probably know what I'm
> talking about: that
> bit of distorted text you have to read in order to prove you're not a
> spam bot. Problem is,
> with my visual processing problems, 5 out of 6 times I'm mistaken for
> a bot. :-)
>
> Apparently even people with *normal* visual processing have trouble
> with these things.
> And it does make sense. There are so many characters in our alphabet
> and number
> system that look similar when ever-so-slightly distorted-- 8 and B; 7
> and T; 6 and G; l
> and I and 1... and there's no redundancy, because most of the
> verification codes are a
> randomly generated assortment of letters and digits, rather than a
> coherent word.
>
> You'd THINK by now that Yahoo would have come up with an accessible
> alternative-- more
> accessible than the one buried in the image's ALT text, which tells
> you to go to a certain
> URL and have a Yahoo support representative sign you up. Yeah,
> that's all well and good,
> except that you'll only see it using a text-only browser (hey, some
> of us have visual
> processing issues and DO load graphics!), and that it's naturally
> slower because the
> request actually has to go through a human. MSN and PayPal have a
> far better idea-- offer
> a sound file with a computerized voice reading the letters and
> numbers in the image.
> Granted, my auditory processing's not the greatest either, but with
> the visual and audio
> *together*, I can usually figure out what the code is on the first
> try. The software that
> drives these things is open-source and freely available-- so why
> can't Yahoo bother to try
> installing an update to solve this issue?
>
> --
> Cody B. / "codeman38"
> cody@z...
> http://www.zone38.net/