[nabs-l] frustrated with facebook!

Sun Jan 10 04:52:46 UTC 2010

I also have no problems using m.facebook.com. It gets done what I need for the basic, and its what I use the majority of the time. I only use the regular site when I need to do something the mobile doesn't provide like posting a link. -Ben

> From: raniaismail04 at gmail.com
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 22:23:44 -0500
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] frustrated with facebook!
> 
> m.facebook.com works fine for me too!
> Rania,
> "For everyone who thought I couldn't do it.
> For everyone who thought I shouldn't do it.
> For everyone who said, 'It's impossible."
> See you at the finish line."
> ~Christopher Reeve
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Serena" <serenacucco at verizon.net>
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 10:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] frustrated with facebook!
> 
> 
> > 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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