[blindkid] Facebook use for blind teenagers
David Andrews
dandrews at visi.com
Thu Nov 12 04:52:48 UTC 2009
There are many blind persons who use Facebook, myself included, but
it isn't particularly friendly to us.
I haven't used thunder in a while, and know that it has improved,
however, in the past it wasn't that sophisticated, and might not have
the tools to deal with Facebook. I don't know that for a fact, just
saying it is possible. JAWS does work, not perfectly, but it
does. You can use different voices with it, and most of us find that
the speech quality ultimately isn't the most important consideration,
but how controllable it is becomes the most important thing.
Some people find m.facebook.com easier to use, or lite.facebook.com
Another thing is that you can set things so that every time you post
something you don't have to use the CAPTCHA -- but it requires a cell
phone that can send a text message once. It makes things much easier though.
Dave
At 06:03 PM 11/11/2009, you wrote:
>My daughter is 17 and all her friends ask her if she's on
>Facebook. Can anyone tell me if Facebook could be manuevered easily
>by a blind user? And if so, what are the tricks? I put up a page
>for her, but as I look at it, I can't figure out the best way for
>her to use it. She uses Thunder reader software. We have Jaws too,
>but she likes the voices on Thunder.
>
>Bo Page
>Bristol, CT
>bo.page at sbcglobal.net
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