Hello there, this is Hamza. Today we would be talking about the captchas and will focus on the new update out there regarding the issue on the market.

A captcha is a string of written letters and numbers which are hard for a computer to read but relatively much easier for a human to identify. it is a machine generated challenge to identify and distinguish the human input from of robots.

Sometimes machines are used to exploit the functionality of websites e.g. generating a thousand of complains per second to turn the system down.

Machine traffic is also used on targeted website for accounts to be created for the purpose of advertisements of specific brands. The functionality of a program is limited to clicking and typing the required information in specific fields.

Such tasks become too easy for robots to perform.
Luckily, we do have something available to counter this issue.

Although the captcha is given in audio form as an additional option by a number of websites, there are a lot of website where text captcha is the only option to solve and get through.

It becomes a hassle for a visually impaired to rely on a sighted assistant to solve the text captcha.
Previously, we had an extension called

webvisum

available for mozilla firefox to solve out captcha for us automatically, however that extension stopped supporting the latest versions of firefox.

For that purpose, a lot of our users were in search of a reliable solution to solve the captcha challenge.
Fortunately, we are able to present to you an extension for the google chrome browser which would solve out captcha for you automatically into the field.

Please keep reading to learn how you can obtain it. This Extension would type in the captcha text for you automatically. Here is how you would install this extension into your google chrome.

1. Download the Captcha Solver Extension for Chrome.  
2. extract the files into a separate folder and copy it's path by pressing the hotkey Alt+D followed by Control+C.
3. Now go to your chrome browser and press alt key.
4. go to tools sub menu and click on extensions. alternatively, you can type in chrome:
   "//extensions" without the quotes into the address bar to open extension page as well.
5. Here you will see a button named toggle developer mode. Toggle this button on.
6. Now you'll see a button named Load Unpacked. Click this one and it will take you to the file browser. Press Alt+D and paste the copied address to our unpacked extension or navigate to the folder where we extracted the contents of the extension manually. Hit tab thrice on the folder name and press enter on select folder button.
7. Now we have moved over to the unpacked folder which contains the contents for our extension and we have selected that folder. You'll now see the Captcha Solver extension within your extension list.
8. At last, turn back the developer mode off. You're now good to solve captcha - No Captcha can prevent your relentless web surfing now.

Note:

Each time you will start chrome, it will give you a warning

Disable developer mode extensions alert: Extensions running in developer mode can harm your computer. If you're not a developer, you should disable these extensions running in developer mode to stay safe

, press escape to ignore that warning. For most it is OK but if you are a fan of not having any distraction within you and your work, you may want to install

chrome

from its canary channel.

Chrome canary

builds are made for developers To  evaluate/debug their web-apps, but a regular user can also install this browser for free if needed.

Is your captcha not getting solved automaticly?

If the captcha solver does not solve the captcha for you automatically, then go to the edit field where you need to enter the captcha input and press Control+Shift+6 to activate solver manually, for the focused field.

Conclusion:

Webvisum has served the community for many years. By the launch of mozilla firefox web browser, initially, webvisum made made an add-on for solving captchas.

After firefox quantum replaced firefox legacy releases however, all add-on developers needed to update their add-ons to make them compatible with firefox latest editions.

But unfortunately, Webvisum developers have disappeared completely and never have provided any update for their add-on. In the meanwhile, many screen readers started to incorporate functionalities related to The Opticle Charactor Recognition, but none of them were useable for captcha solving. And finally, after awaiting for years, a good news has come in in the form of

captcha solver

extension. This is a great initiative of the

original developer

to fix this major need of internet surfing for the people with visual impairment.

We hope you find this article to your use and spread this information in your circle by sharing .

Thanks for reading,
From The BlindHelp Team,
Happy computing!