[nabs-l] frustrated with facebook!

[Katie Wang]

Hi, all,
  I primarily use the mobile site at m.facebook.com, and it has worked
great for me. I do have to switch to the regular site when doing
things such as creating an event or modifying my profile, but for the
day-to-day tasks of status updates,writing wall posts, and sending
messages to friends, the mobile site has never given me any problems.
One issue I have encountered is that JAWS wouldn't read the email
addresses listed under the Contact Information section of my friends'
profiles. Has this happened to anyone?
   Katie


On 1/9/10, Kerri Kosten <kerrik2006 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> I haven't had any of these problems.
> I never go onh the regular site anymore, just use
> m.facebook.com
> It works great for me.
> It's really clean....and I can do everything I would normally do on
> the regular site including editing my profile.
> Works great!
>
> Kerri
>
> On 1/9/10, Rachel Becker <Rachel at beckerconsultants.com> wrote:
>> I haven't been able to use the mobile site for the last few weeks and I
>> have
>> been having some problems with the regular site. One problem is that when
>> I
>> click the link to send a friend request nothing happens.
>> Rachel
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org]On
>> Behalf Of Cindy Bennett
>> Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 4:51 PM
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] frustrated with facebook!
>>
>>
>> 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
>> activating 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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