Hi Raul, Thanks for this info, I will be sure to pass it along when I write to them. I would like to provide them with as much info when I write and unfortunately I'm not a web development expert. Let me try to be more specific and if you have free time on your hands and feel like checking this out, these are the problems I am having and if you understand what's going on better than I do I'd love to know what I can tell them.
Firstly, there are various parts of facebook that allow you to leave comments on a person's status, stories, photos etc. The option to leave a comment apparently is supposed to be an onclick or a link of some kind from what I can tell, but Window-Eyes does not recognize them as any type of control. Rather, they simply show up as static text inside of browse mode. In order to leave a comment you must get the mouse pointer to that text by whatever means, left click, then manually refresh browse mode to see the new content. This is doable, and I have been doing it this way in fact for a while now, but it is quite annoying. A similar problem shows up with lots of other options in facebook. For example, if you are looking at your own profile, there is a "wall" that you or anyone else can write stories or comments to. Each story has an edit button next to it. When you click this edit button you are presented with more options such as delete the post, show the full post etc. Just like the comment buttons, these edit buttons are shown as static text in the browse mode buffer. If I use firefox, WE doesn't even seem to see these edit buttons at all, only if I am using IE. So, if I want to do any kind of editing of my wall postings, I really have no choice but to use IE. There is in fact, lots of portions of the web page that are seemingly hidden when I use firefox but I see when using IE. I get the feeling like IE is even displaying some things to Window-Eyes that are supposed to be hidden, but maybe they are not hiding the content correctly. When I disable javascript things start reading better, but facebook is pretty much useless without javascript. Yes, they have an html only version for mobile devices, but it is a stripped down version of the full site. It is good for sending messages and the like, but does not, as far as I can tell allow access to more advanced options such as 3rd party facebook applications. Thanks much. -Cory -----Original Message----- From: Raul A. Gallegos [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 8:04 AM To: GW Info Discussion List Subject: Re: Some issues with facebook I confess that I have not explored all its features so I'm not sure what you are referring to. As for making a web site more accessible. We usually like to point web masters, developers, ETC to www.gwmicro.com/developers where they can get a lot of useful information. The more people write, the better it may be for everyone in general. many thanks. Cory Samaha wrote the following on 3/2/2009 8:35 PM: > Raul, > > What about the controls that are supposed to show up as links, but are only > recognized as static text to WE? Why is this happening? It would really be > nice to be able to just hit enter on these links rather than depending on > the mouse pointer. Yes it is doable, but I would say the experience is not > very optimal. > > Is this a WE issue that will be corrected, or do we have to write to > facebook? And if we have to write to facebook, what suggestions can we give > them to make it more WE friendly? > > Many thanks! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Raul A. Gallegos [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 5:30 PM > To: GW Info Discussion List > Subject: Re: Some issues with facebook > > I recently signed up to see what all the fuss was about and it's not too > bad really. In some areas when you click a link or an edit box. You have > to toggle browse mode, but that's about it. > > Good luck. > > Jed Barton wrote the following on 3/2/2009 5:28 PM: >> Hey guys, >> >> Is it me, or is facebook a horrible web sight to use with windoweyes. >> Here are some of the issues I am having. >> When I click on someone and go to the link that says send them a message, >> I'll press enter on it. >> First of all, IE doesn't make the click sound. Then I'll look for the > form >> where I enter the subject and message body. It's a crap shoot, sometimes > it >> is there, but 90 percent of the time it's not. >> Then sometimes I'll have to refresh it to get it to come up. >> Any hints for getting around this sight? >> >> Thanks, >> Jed >> >> If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original >> sender only. 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