[nabs-l] Facebook question regarding photo albums

Sun Nov 20 03:20:47 UTC 2011

I think I heard something about the Federation working with 
Facebook, but I can't swear to that, and would need a 
confirmation from someone else.  Nicole, the mobile site is very 
accessible, although it doesn't have some of the features that 
the regular site has.  But it has most of the features of 
Facebook, and I don't really need the ones that aren't in there.

Chris

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicole B.  Torcolini at Home" <ntorcolini at wavecable.com
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Date sent: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:01:01 -0800
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Facebook question regarding photo albums

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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