oedipus' online complexes

as a blind individual, i had a hell of a time setting up myOpera account, as one of the required fields contains a visual turing test, without a non-visual alternative... the good news is that in the near future, there will be an alternative to the visual CAPTCHA; the bad news, of course, is that i had to have a mate create an account for me... yes, absolute self-reliance is an illusion, but having to depend upon others to perform a task one is perfectly willing to undertake, undermines the autonomy that the internet ostensively offers everybody, something which i and other blind individuals have to surrender all too often in the "real" world... but i'm here now, and that's what really matters...