Darren,
I never got any suggested URL's for Facebook Mobile to work. I finally
got there by going to Help from the full Facebook site and typing the word
"accessibility" into the search box. There is a link to it in the
Accessibility Information.
I have found to additional helps for taking quick glances at parts of
the Facebook site. I have located RSS feeds for Status Updates and
Notifications.
If you have never done so, you will need to register to use the Mobile
site.
Suzy! The Blind Avenger!
Doing everything possible to prove that blind people can.
-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Harris [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 2:44 AM
To: 'Chris Skarstad'; [email protected]
Subject: RE: Facebook
Hi,
This address doesn't seem to work.
http://m.facebook.com
Any ideas? Is the address wrong?
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Skarstad [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 24 February 2009 16:47
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
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