Has anyone tried to get in touch with facebook developers regarding accessibility? I know the mobile version is a solution, but it would be nice to be able to use the regular version as well. In fact the regular version, I find is usable, but you can tell it was not built with screen readers in mind. If anyone has tried to contact facebook about this, what has the response been, if any?
I would contact them, but I don't have much web development knowledge, so I really wouldn't know what suggestions to give them from a technical standpoint. Perhaps this is where Aaron could come in? <grin> -Cory -----Original Message----- From: Chris Skarstad [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Facebook Hi. If you're tearing your hair out over how complicated Facebook is, don't worry. If you go to http://m.facebook.com That's the mobile version of the site, which is meant for people to use on a PDA or your phone. All the links are very clearly labeled, you can update your status, comment on other people's statuses, send messages to them, connect with friends from school and I believe uploading and managing photos is also a lot easier to do as well, admittedly I haven't tried it yet. But I use that version of the site exclusively now. The regular version is an absolute nightmare to use with WE or any other screenreader I've tried with it. Some are better than others but over all, the mobile version is, at least for me, the best way to go when it comes to using Facebook. and say what you will about the site, but it's how people are communicating these days and if you want to stay in touch, it's good to use. At 09:39 AM 2/17/2009, you wrote: >Dear Vic, > >Thank you for your well stated message! Sure "FaceBook" may seem like a >frivolous indulgence to some, unimportant to the serious grown-ups among >us, but I need to learn to use Facebook for my job, and it is *so >complicated, I am having so much trouble with it. I wish that GWMicro >would create a tutorial for using Facebook, and Twitter too. That would >be the most efficient way to learn it. I have lots of other job >responsibilities as well. What I need to do is learn to use the social >networking site and to be able to access the information there as >quickly as my sighted colleagues. I don't have hours and hours >available to turn on and off browse mode and do all the other >work-around things that seem to make the site "mostly possible" for >others. > >And that's what most of the people I ask who use the site say, "Well, >you can do most things..." > >I need to do *all of the things that everyone else is doing, and in an >efficient way. I am not finding a solution. >Penny > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:27 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: Facebook > >Hello John: > >Just because Face Book is not for you, it doesn't make it wrong. It is >just the next step in social networking. > >We continue to face this as new technology arises . This happened with >the telephone, cell phones, the Internet, personal computers, and so on. >Many of us find ourselves expending a lot of effort to maintain the >status quo. How often do we find ourselves working for an employer >whose motto seems to be something like "we support yesterday's >technology tomorrow" :) > >On the subject of cell phones, who would have thought that texting would >be as popular as it is and that the word text would be changed into a >verb? > >On the new technology front children are even playing with one another >differently. Look at the XBox Live phenomenon. More and more children >play with their friends in an on-line collaborate environment then ever >before. Many of these friends they have met at schools, scouts, cadets, >etc. Yet there are people with whom they interact who they have never >met in person. This is becoming a challenge for parents. Also for >children living with vision loss or a vision impairment this is going to >be one of the challenges we face. I suspect they are being left behind >in this arena. They may be intergraded or included in "the mainstream" >however they might be isolated, because they are not able to take part >in these on-line collaboration games. > >Vic > > >-----Original Message----- >From: John G [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 8:09 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Facebook > >Guys, ladies, gentlemen, can someone in plain English explain the >facination with Facebook? I am genuinely interested to learn why the >world and his wife are on Facebook. > >John >At 13:55 17/02/2009, you wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I recommend that you take time and have a lot of patience in learning > >Facebook. > > > >You will need to use your mouse navigation keys to navigate most of > >Facebook. If you want to invite friends, you need to navigate to the > >friend's profile and there is a button that says, "Add as Friend." >You > >will need your mouse keys to do this. Another option, till you get >used to > >the site, is to have friends send you a friend request. This way you >won't > >have to hunt around as much. > > > >To add photos, route your mouse pointer to the top of the Facebook page >and > >click on, "Photos," Next, when that link activates, click on "my >photos." > > From there, you will see links to add photos. There are two ways to >do > >this, with Facebook's uploader or with a slightly slower, but sometimes > >easier method, the Simple Uploader. > > > >Let me know your progress and I'll try to help. > > > >Janet > > > >If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original > >sender only. 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