[nabs-l] frustrated with facebook!

[Beth]

I'm also friends with @Mongoose_Q, the inventor of Qwitter, the
accessible Twitter client.  It will eventually have Facebook support
and other things as well.  Jamie introduced me to the wonderful
software that is Qwitter and I absolutely love it!
Beth

On 1/9/10, Jamie Principato <blackbyrdfly at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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