[nabs-l] Facebook question regarding photo albums

[Nicole B. Torcolini at Home]

Do you know if anyone has tried to work with Facebook to get them to fix the 
accessibility problems?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cindy Bennett" <clb5590 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Facebook question regarding photo albums


> Oh, and I forgot to make it clear that I only have experience creating
> albums with the regular website. I like the mobile website, but I hate
> looking at pictures, because even if they have captions, they do not
> show up on the mobile site. However, you can only accessibly make
> something your profile picture via the mobile site.
>
> Cindy
>
> On 11/15/11, Cindy Bennett <clb5590 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have not created an album since the last website change, so this may
>> not be as accesible since I have noticed a decrease in accessibility
>> in other aspects of the website, but I will tell you what I have done.
>>
>> The best case scenario is to know what order your pictures are in. I
>> have uploaded pictures to my computer and had someone rename the
>> pictures with enough of a description so I would know what they are.
>>
>> Then, you create the album. You have to enter a title, and then on the
>> next page, you will be able to upload pictures. You need to use the
>> simple uploader. You will only be able to upload 5 pictures at a time,
>> but it is the accessible option. After uploading 5 pictures, they wil
>> show up with a coupld of check boxes like, make this the album cover,
>> or delete this picture, and there will be an edit box to write a
>> picture caption. I typically ignore all of this stuff, and click the
>> link to upload more pictures until I have uploaded all of the pictures
>> for an album. The pictures will appear in the order in which you
>> uploaded them, so after I am finished, I return to the folder where my
>> pictures are stored, and use the title of each picture as a guide to
>> write the caption for that picture. You can then choose your album
>> cover and finish. There is not a way to tag people, so I either get
>> someone to help me or encourage my friends to tag themselves.
>>
>> I know uploading iPhone pictures is accessible, so that could be
>> another method. I don't think you can rename your pictures, so if
>> you're uploading multiple pictures, you'll have to keep track of which
>> picture number corresponds to each picture.
>>
>> I hope this helps. I really enjoy making albums and sharing my
>> pictures although I don't do it often.
>>
>> Cindy
>>
>> On 11/15/11, Jim Portillo <portillo.jim at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Howdy howdy!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Just wondering if any of you Facebook users have any positive 
>>> experiences
>>> in
>>> creating individual photo albums and then uploading photos into those
>>> albums.  I'd especially like to hear from totally blind users who have
>>> done
>>> it with a screen reader.
>>>
>>> I've been trying, by going to the Create album feature in the "Add 
>>> Photo"
>>> section, but I'm not really doing something right.
>>>
>>> I have uploaded photos mainly via the m.facebook.com site, but I have a
>>> series of photos I'd like to upload that all belong together in an 
>>> album.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Cindy Bennett
>> B.A. Psychology, UNC Wilmington
>>
>> clb5590 at gmail.com
>> 828.989.5383
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Cindy Bennett
> B.A. Psychology, UNC Wilmington
>
> clb5590 at gmail.com
> 828.989.5383
>
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