[nabs-l] Facebook and Accessibility (or rather lack there of)

Cindy Bennett clb5590 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 02:00:53 UTC 2011 

Tagging people in statusses is different than in pictures. There is no
edit box for pictures. You have to click on the person in the picture,
and then you can type in who it is. But yes, if you want to tag
someone so their name is linked in a post, put the @ sign before their
name. I type enough so that their name is the only one that can come
up out of all of my friends, and then i tab and shift tab back into
the edit box. You cannot do this on the mobile site either.

Cindy

On 11/15/11, Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried tagging people like it said in the emails Facebook sends
> me when someone taggs me (by typing the at sign and then the
> person's name,) but it didn't work.
>
> Chris
>
> "The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The
> real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that
> exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and
> opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical
> nuisance."
> -- Kenneth Jernigan (President, National Federation of the Blind,
> 1968-1986
>
> P.S.  The I C.A.N.  Foundation helps blind and visually impaired
> youth in Maryland say "I can," by empowering them through
> providing assistive technology and scholarships to camps and
> conventions which help them be equal with their sighted peers.
> For more information about the Foundation and to support our
> work, visit us online at www.icanfoundation.info!
>
> Sent from my BrailleNote Apex
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: Cindy Bennett <clb5590 at gmail.com
> To: shogle at students.kennesaw.edu, National Association of Blind
> Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:14:44 -0500
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Facebook and Accessibility (or rather lack
> there of)
>
> I like the mobile site, but when it comes to things like looking
> at
> pictures, any captions people write for pictures are not on the
> mobile
> site.  Also, can you tag people or places on the mobile site? I
> try the
> same way it is done on the regular site, putting an @ sign
> before, but
> it does not work.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cindy
>
> On 11/4/11, Sam Hogle <hogle.sam at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I agree that it can be used.  However, my issues with it have
> been that
>  it doesn't allways want to cooperate with Jaws when it comes to
> me
>  trying to post stuff since what I'm posting comes up way than
> slower
>  than my typing speed, I can't easily view my news feed, and
> there is
>  just too much crap on the page in general.  That last complaint
> may not
>  be as valid since I'm what you might call a light user.  I
> update my
>  stattus and profile on a regular basis, but I'm not interested
> in any of
>  the games, which I hear are not at all accessable.  So, the
> mobile sight
>  has allways been way better for me.  But, we're all different,
> so what
>  works for some won't work for all.
>  On 11/4/2011 11:47 AM, Brice Smith wrote:
>  The mobile site simply does not have the same functionality as
> the
>  regular site.  This is not a problem if you are a light user,
> but
>  anyone needing to use more advanced functions on the site will
> have to
>  use the regular version.
>
>  That said, I really don't find the regular version all that
>  inaccessible and don't understand the complaints about Facebook.
> While
>  I don't use Facebook much as an individual, I manage and update
> the
>  page for the organization I work with.  I can post updates, link
> to
>  other organizations and pages much like twitter within statuses,
>  manage photos, and do just about everything else I'm required to
>  complete.  What problems are you all experiencing?
>
>  Brice
>
>  On 11/4/11, Hannah Chadwick<sparklylicious at suddenlink.net>
> wrote:
>  I definitely agree with Rania.  I'm sure there are more options
> and such
>  on
>  the regular facebook site, but I find the mobile one very
> accessible :)
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>  Behalf
>  Of Rania Ismail CMT
>  Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 1:15 AM
>  To: 'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'
>  Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Facebook and Accessibility (or rather lack
> there
>  of)
>
>  I find using the moble facebook site much easyer to use then the
> regular
>  site as a jaws user.
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>  Behalf
>  Of Nicole B.  Torcolini at Home
>  Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 9:52 PM
>  To: NABS-L
>  Subject: [nabs-l] Facebook and Accessibility (or rather lack
> there of)
>
>  Excuse me if this is off topic.
>  If anyone has figured out how to make navigating the regular
> Facebook
>  page
>  with a screen reader go smoother, can he/she please email me off
> list?
>  On a similar note, do you think that using the mobile site is an
>  acceptable
>  alternative to having an accessible site?
>
>  Nicole
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Cindy Bennett
B.A. Psychology, UNC Wilmington

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