[nabs-l] frustrated with facebook!

Sun Jan 10 05:26:31 UTC 2010

I found a website called facebook lite. I like it. The address is 
http://lite.facebook.com/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brice Smith" <brice.smith319 at gmail.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] frustrated with facebook!

> 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
>>>>
>>>> -----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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