[nabs-l] Facebook question regarding photo albums

[Cindy Bennett]

If you were on the mobile site, then that may be why you aren't seeing
your captions, because they don't show up on the mobile site, but if
you weren't, then I don't know.

Cindy

On 11/15/11, Nicole B. Torcolini at Home <ntorcolini at wavecable.com> wrote:
> Do you know if anyone has tried to work with Facebook to get them to fix the
> accessibility problems?
>
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> 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
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>
>> 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
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
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