[nabs-l] frustrated with facebook!

Sun Jan 10 03:33:32 UTC 2010

Yeah I can't read people's EMail addresses either. I haven't tried with the Mac, but it never did with the PC. I quite frankly just don't have the patience for Facebook. Twitter is much better for me.

-Briley
On Jan 9, 2010, at 10:14 PM, Katie Wang wrote:

> 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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