[nabs-l] frustrated with facebook!

Sun Jan 10 03:50:15 UTC 2010

I've heard that the email address is hidden in some type of fancy
graphic to prevent spammers, so a screen reader won't read it.

Lately I have been unable to watch any videos on Facebook. The play
and stop buttons no longer show up on the page, though the video
comments and other options are listed. It's as If the controls for
watching a video have disappeared, and I do have the latest version of
flash. I've never used the mobile version of Facebook until tonight,
and the mobile version does not support viewing videos. Other than
that, I really haven't experienced many problems with Facebook.

Brice
On 1/9/10, Katie Wang <bunnykatie6 at gmail.com> 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
>>>
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>>>
>>> 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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