I have used Facebook Chat through the Messages App since getting my Mac almost a year ago, and I find it to be a very consistent experience. The only thing that some users might find problematic is that there are no announcements about which contacts are signing in and out. Of course, your buddy list will update to reflect who is online. If memory serves, there are also no notifications about when your buddy is typing, though I believe the typing status is displayed at the bottom of the conversation window. Also, if you turn off VoiceOver’s cursor tracking with VO+SHIFT+F3, you can keep VoiceOver’s focus in the conversation window but have the keyboard focus in the compose box. This may make it easier to keep up with a rapid conversation.
Another person on the list indicated this week that Facebook Chat via Jabber is now deprecated. I have no knowledge of this, and it still seems to be working perfectly, so I’m not sure what the situation might be. It looks like Jabber support is here to stay. In Windows, you can also use Skype. If you use JAWS, I think Freedom Scientific is maintaining support for Skype so the chat experience should work fairly well. Grant On Jun 5, 2015, at 11:11 AM, christopher hallsworth <challswor...@icloud.com> wrote: Hi all I bring to you news that I got Facebook Chat working in both Windows and now on the Mac. On Windows, I use Instantbird and set up Facebook Chat with its native support. On the Mac, I set up a Messages account, using Jabba as the account type after selecting "other messages account", use usern...@chat.facebook.com for example christopher.hallswor...@chat.facebook.com enter my Facebook password and the rest can be left alone. It was so simple to set up I could have kicked myself *smile*. Here are the exact instructions for the Mac only; Windows users may skip this. 1. Open Messages. 2. Press command-comma (,) too open Preferences. 3. Interact with the toolbar, click accounts, stop interacting, interact with the account controls group, click add account and stop interacting. 4. Select other messages account radio button and click continue. 5. In the account type popup button, choose Jabba. 6. Enter your Facebook username and password as shown in the example above. Note Don't know your Facebook username or haven't got one yet? Go to www.facebook.com/username log in if prompted and you can either create one or learn what your username is. The rest of the settings can be left alone, and it should just work like anything else on the Mac. Happy chatting! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
