[nabs-l] frustrated with facebook!

[Serena]

m.facebook.com doesn't really exist anymore for people who only use 
computers, not cell phones.  I already tried that.  Thanks anyway.

Serena


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cindy Bennett" <clb5590 at gmail.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 4:51 PM
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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