[gui-talk] Facebook Homepage,already bad, gets worse

[Lloyd Rasmussen]

I use the regular Facebook page, and agree that it is often presenting new
challenges.  I find it less cluttered when viewed in Firefox than in IE,
although I haven't tried this week's flavor with IE yet.

I am now up to 112 friends and counting.  I like to skim through the "live
feed" or "news feed" displays.  There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or
reason to the order in which items appear.  But each new person's post
starts as a level 3 heading.  You have to press spacebar on a button to see
all comments if there are more than 2 or 3.  

I don't write many status updates, so few people write on my wall.  But I
found that I could get to my wall by pressing Enter on Profile, then going
to the first link (you could search for the word "wall") after the only
level 1 heading on that page.

I don't like to remain logged in continuously; I would rather sign in and
out.  They made the Logout process one step more tedious by making you press
Enter on Account, then refresh the page and look for "logout" which has been
inserted into the display a few items below "account".

Be thankful that they are using headings and lists, and that sometimes the
labels even come out in the correct place.  And expect another flavor of
home page at any time, with no apparent justification to a screen reader
user.

Lloyd Rasmussen, enjoying the fact that the electricity is still on in
Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:50 AM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Facebook Homepage,already bad, gets worse
> 
> Dale ,
> 
> 
> I've used the stripped-down mobile version a number of times and not been
> satisfied. It has no heading to find wall posts easily, it doesn't show
> very
> much at all. And I'm not talking as a user who cares about everything from
> games to chat to correspondence via Facebook to joining this or thatgroup
> or
> being a fan of anybody. . I just want to come onto my home page and see
> all
> the poast from friends on my Wall. For me, this version has always sucked.
> 
> And yes, I've tried the so-called _lite_ version. That's no help at all.
> And
> now the standard home page, they say proudly they've just simplified, and
> all their descriptive info is about sectors of the page and eeven colors
> that a screen reader guy can't even figure out. Not this screen reader
> guy,
> anyway. If FS could be in touch with them and somehow keep up withj them,
> they'd be writing and modifying scripsts constanttly.They ought to fund
> development and page design departments for FS, is what I think. I had
> enough trouble trying to find all my Wll poasts before, in either standard
> mode or that mobilemode.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joel
> From: "Dale E. Heltzer" <deheltzer at msn.com>
> To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Facebook Homepage,already bad, gets worse
> 
> 
> Joel, are you using the mobile version of the page:
> 
> http://M.facebook.com
> 
> It's relatively screenreader-friendly.
> I would have given up on FaceBook if I had had to use the default
> Webpage with all the idiot graphics and pictures and sundry visual junk
> <g>.
> HTH
>