The mobile version of Facebook is fairly easy to use. My main problem is with Ebay. I did a system restore last night, but that didn't help matters. I found that I am able to choose location and buy it now, even though they're the strange half links half check boxes. But there's still no way for me to sort by price, nor can I enter minimum and maximum price. Those fields simply aren't there. I tried to see if there was a link to return the classic look, or something of that nature, but none existed. This was with Firefox. It's also worth noting that, when Internet Explorer still showed the normal site, I still couldn't purchase anything with it. Every time I would attempt to do so, the page would freeze on me. Since I can't copy or edit the url there, I was forced to copy the entire page of the item into Notepad, then return to Firefox, go to Ebay and search by item number so that I could buy it.
As a sidenote, I ran a full scan with Microsoft Security Essentials. I can't tell if it found anything, since it's not really accessible, and I just set it to quarantine and remove any moderate to serious threats. But it didn't change the behaviour of Ebay. On 04/01/2013, Umair Ijaz <[email protected]> wrote: > i use fb, yes there are less accessibility. but you still can visit > them and can chit chat with your friends. for chating i use skype 6, > which give the option to configure fb contacts on it. and for > notifications i use both mobile version and mainsite also. main site > has more option so i mostly switch to it. but i am beginner user of > facebook so fb, so i always prefer that some one should made its > tutorial with jaws. initial tutorial withjaws are present on jaws > users list home page but they are about how to make account on fb, so > i request david and others that if someone has some tutorial regarding > facebook then please share. if someone write these in text then it > will take no more than two or three pages in ms word. so if someone > has sufficient kowledge on the social networking sites either facebook > or twitter should come up with great contribution in the form of > tutorial either in text or audio but with jaws. thanks > > On 1/3/13, inthaneelf <[email protected]> wrote: >> ah, well you could use jaws, it still works there on eBay (I don't use >> facebook so can't comment on them), you could update to windows 7 which >> is >> not that hard to learn and can be customized to look just like XP, or you >> can play with your dos when it comes out! >> >> live and learn, you make it sound bad, when it's actually a good thing >> >> inthaneelf >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Blind-Computing [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Eleni Vamvakari >> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 1:21 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Blind-Computing] Problems with Ebay and Facebook >> >> Over the past several months, I've been having major problems with >> Ebay. I've noticed that the combo boxes for sorting items, as well as >> the edit boxes for choosing price, and the regular links for things >> like buy it now, the various categories, location, etc. have all >> become inaccessible. They now look like a combination of links and >> check boxes, which do nothing when I click on them. I've tried both >> Firefox, which is my main browser, and Internet Explorer. Sometimes, >> they work properly, but now, neither one is working, and these >> problems appear on both browsers, where previously, I was able to use >> IE for the purpose. Firefox also started acting normally, a few days >> ago, but has now resumed this strange look. The ad-ons manager in >> Firefox has also become inaccessible. >> >> I also have to use the mobile version of Facebook with both browsers, >> since it's very difficult to use the main site on Firefox and >> virtually impossible with IE. When I get e-mails of notifications >> from Facebook, they all use the www. version of pages. But I can't >> get to the address with IE, as I can with Firefox, in order to edit it >> to m. so that I can view things on the mobile site. I also can't >> update IE, because I'm using Windows XP, and 7 is the last version >> that will work with my os! So basically, I'm left with only a few >> options. >> 1. Change to a version of Windows which I have no idea how to use, and >> no desire to learn, one which is far more complicated than what I >> already have. >> 2. Buy another Mac (which is ridiculously expensive) so that I can >> upgrade to Mountain Lion, or buy more memory for my Macbook so I can >> upgrade to Lion. Both have better navigational features than Snow >> Leopard, but I'm not a huge fan of the Mac. Please do not suggest to >> me that I buy an iOS device. I don't like touch screens and the like, >> nor do I wish to change to Linux. >> 3. Continue using Firefox and uninstall/reinstall it every time Ebay >> starts acting up, hoping that will fix the problem (it didn't today), >> or I don't like an add-on and need to delete it, or do a system >> restore each time. >> 4. Wait for my MS-DOS 7.10 machine, which should be coming soon. I've >> heard that these sites are accessible with DOS browsers. >> >> For the record, I use NVDA as my screenreader. Has anyone else >> experienced these problems? If so, what solutions have you found? >> This is really upsetting me! What's worse is that both Ebay and >> Facebook have wonderfully accessible mobile pages, but they don't have >> many of the basic features of their main sites. >> >> Thanks, >> Eleni >> >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> >> >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
