[nfb-talk] Facebook

[kaye zimpher]

I prefer facebook on the iPhone. If you have an iPhone, download the app and 
give it a try. It's much better that way.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lloyd Rasmussen via nfb-talk" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras at sprynet.com>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2016 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Facebook


> There are a lot of inexplicable things happening on the main 
> www.facebook.com page, but you get the full experience that way. I use 
> Window-Eyes 9.4 and the latest version of Firefox, and it works reasonably 
> well for posting statuses, reading my news feed, adding or turning down 
> friend requests, liking other posts, etc. If you're not in a position to 
> update JAWS, NVDA and Firefox should also work pretty well, although I 
> haven't tried this combination lately. The reason you don't find too many 
> useful books about Facebook is that they are continuously changing their 
> site. I think I remember that Mark Zuckerberg used to ask his engineers, 
> in order to be innovative, to "break things." I think they have backed off 
> from that credo in recent years, but what you knew about Facebook in June 
> will probably be somewhat different by December. I wish I had more time to 
> explore it and keep up with my 400 friends. Anyone who knows me knows that 
> it's absurd for me to have 400 friends, but I do have that many 
> acquaintances.
>
>
>
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
> http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Mark Tardif via nfb-talk
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2016 5:03 PM
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> Cc: Mark Tardif ; NFB Talk Mailing List
> Subject: [nfb-talk] Facebook
>
> Hi, fellow Federationists,
>
> To make a long story short, I agreed to have my picture taken for Facebook 
> as part of a cause I am involved with here in Maine.  That kind of 
> inspired me to try to subscribe to Facebook.  I have done so and have had 
> several friend requests.  But I am very new at this.  I was with a sighted 
> friend this afternoon and we were both getting frustrated because it wasn’t 
> doing what it was supposed to do.  Things kept getting deselected, for 
> example. How do we do things like post to friends and look for other 
> people we may want to “friend?”  How well does JAWS work with Facebook?  I 
> have Windows 7 and JAWS 12.  Is there a tutorial one can find on-line to 
> help novices?  Is there a book on BARD or available in accessible format 
> anyone can recommend? Do I have to do anything with cookies to make this 
> work more effectively? These are not urgent questions, but since everyone 
> seems to use Facebook, I figured I would give it a try.  Thank you for any 
> suggestions you may have.
> Mark Tardif
> Nuclear arms will not hold you.
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