Hello Laurel & Sarah, On my Macs I’m currently able to tag FB Friends from a popup list using the following steps: 1. This assumes the latest versions of MacOS and Safari are installed, QuickNav is turned off, and that javascript is enabled in Safari (Safari / Preferences / Security / Enable Javascript). 2. Go to the main Facebook site www.facebook.com. Note that this will not work on the mobile Facebook site, m.facebook.com. 3. On the main Facebook page, navigate to and activate the button labeled “Update Status.” VO now announces “What’s on your mind” and I can start typing my status update here. 4. When I want to tag someone in the body of the status, I type the “@“ symbol followed by the first few letters of their name, as you mentioned, and then I can use one of the following three methods to select and insert the desired name into the status. Note that all of these methods require Javascript to be enabled in Safari. Method 1: Press the down arrow key with no modifier keys and VO automatically moves into the list of matching names and I can highlight the friend I want to tag and then press VO+Spacebar to insert the name into the status and resume typing. Method 2: if your Mac has a mouse or trackpad and if you are comfortable using it and if you have your VO Verbosity set to "speak text under mouse after delay of zero seconds” you might be able to press VO+Command+F5 to bring the mouse pointer to the VO cursor and then move the mouse pointer down through the popup list of names and click once to insert the name. Method 3: Open the Item Chooser menu (VO+I) and type the first few letters you typed in step 4 above. This narrows my item chooser down to the list of names in the popup list and I can then navigate and select the desired name using normal Item Chooser / VO commands.
BTW, On my Macs I normally use the FB mobile site, m.facebook.com, but I’m not able to tag friends using the mobile site, which is why I wrote my instructions using the standard FB site. Also, I’ve not yet tried removing the last names from a tag, so I can’t speak to whether or not that works in Safari on the Mac. Lastly, while the folks at FB are undeniably making great strides in terms of site accessibility, I have a sense that they are still prone to making random, unannounced back-end changes that alter the layout and behavior of the site. Thus, YMMV. HTH, and please let us know if this works for you, Bryan On Jun 16, 2014, at 6:49 PM, Laurel and Stockard <laurel.stock...@gmail.com> wrote: > Now, for the bad news. The process should be the same for the mac, hit the @ > sign and then begin typing a name, and a drop down menu should appear and you > should be able to select the person, hit backspace if you wanna get rid of > the last name, etc. The part that we VO users can't get around is that once > you start typing, no drop down menus seem to appear. I don't think Voiceover > is recognizing the menu, assuming it's there. I'm not sure if it's fixable or > not, but maybe somebody more knowledgable than I can take this info and do > something with it. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
