[nabs-l] Facebook question regarding photo albums

Cindy Bennett clb5590 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 01:46:47 UTC 2011


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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> 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
>>>
>>> clb5590 at gmail.com
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>>>
>>
>>
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>> Cindy Bennett
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