[nabs-l] frustrated with facebook!

[Jamie Principato]

Do any of you use Qwitter? If not, check out Qwitter-client.net (that's
Qwitter with a Q W, not a Q U). It's an accessible twitter client, and one
of the best, I think. You can tweet from anywhere on your computer with just
a few very simple keystrokes, and you never have to mess around with the
website.

I'm really close with the Qwitter inventor and head of the development team
(and by close, I mean I live with him, lol). This isn't out in the open just
yet, but Qwitter will soon have facebook support, so you'll be able to do
everything on facebook from the same convenient, accessible interface you
tweet from if you already use Qwitter. So if you've had it up to hear with
Facebook, just hang in there a bit longer and @Mongoose_Q will have an
answer for you.

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Cindy Bennett <clb5590 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe instead of going to the regular site and clicking on mobile, go
> to m.facebook.com I think there might be a couple of links about
> actiDovating your phone and such, but other than that, it is clean.
> Clicking on mobile might outline the features of facebook mobile
> rather than take you to the mobile site, but i have never clicked on
> it, so taht is just a thought.
>
> I understand though, facebook is quite annoying, but with as many
> users as it has, it can be.
>
> A lot of the applications are accessible though, and sometimes
> facebook is finicky not because of your screen reader, because i know
> several sighted friends who have problems. I feel like it is almost
> unavoidable with how many users there are and with how much is going
> on on the site.
>
> The mobile site is definitely useful for wall posts and sending
> messages and such, but isn't for other things such as the fact that it
> does not verbalize captions people might right on their pictures, and
> it doesn't give all of the information about groups and events, so
> depending on what i want to do, i switch between the regular and
> mobile site.
>
> One problem i just started encountering with JAWS 11 though is that
> when i enter an edit box, i am unable to get out of it. It has gotten
> to the point where i have to close the window and open another.
>
> Firefox helps ith some facebook problems but also presents others. For
> example, i cannot edit the heading about myself, the "write something
> about yourself" link unless i use firefox, but as of a couple of
> months ago, firefox wouldn't allow me to go offline. So i haven't
> found a browser that works optimally with JAWS and facebook. I will
> definitely be excited when voiceover improves.
>
> Cindy
>
> On 1/9/10, Serena <serenacucco at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Hi nabsters,
> >
> > It seems that facebook has become more inaccessible to t the blind or, at
> > least, more cumbersome to use.  It seems that all the features on the
> > facebook mobile site that made it really great, such as few if any
> graphics
> > or advertizements and not that many links on each page, and made them
> only
> > useable by those who have facebook on their cell phones.  When I go to
> the
> > link on the regular site that says "mobile," it merely takes me to the
> > regular site plus a section that talks about all the wonderful things one
> > can do with facebook on their cell phones.  There are simply too many
> links
> > and features on every page!  Ok, it's great to know about fancy functions
> > like importing contacts and facebook chat, but do we really have to see
> > those sections on every page when all I'm really on there to do is write
> one
> > message to someone?  For those of us who might be in the dark ages lol
> and
> > don't have a internet on our cell phones, are there any settings we could
> > change to make reading the site any easier?
> >
> > Very frustrated,
> > Serena
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