[nabs-l] frustrated with facebook!

Sun Jan 10 17:15:52 UTC 2010

I get the same thing all the time. Use Fire Fox if you can; it works fine 
there.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Serena" <serenacucco at verizon.net>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
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Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] frustrated with facebook!

> When I try going to m.facebook.com, Jaws says something about not being 
> able to download a file.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kerri Kosten" <kerrik2006 at gmail.com>
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 12:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] frustrated with facebook!
>
>
>> Hey:
>>
>> Hmm, that's odd. I go to it all the time and it comes up as a
>> site....I mean it's not the same as the regular one....it's a mobile
>> version of the site....but it works and I can do things on it...and
>> it's a lot cleaner than the regular site i find.
>>
>> What happens when you try it?
>> Does any type of page come up?
>>
>> Kerri
>>
>> On 1/9/10, Serena <serenacucco at verizon.net> wrote:
>>> 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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