[Nfbc-info] social networking website resolution

[Justin Ekis]

Hi all,

First, I'll introduce myself since this is my first post here. My name is 
Justin Ekis, I just recently moved back to California after several years. 
Unfortunately there isn't yet a local chapter in my area. I recently 
graduated from the Louisiana Center for the blind.

Anyway, I have used facebook with jaws 9 and 10 so I can't speak about 
anything older. I've found that facebook reads rather well with internet 
explorer and it reads excellently with firefox 3. Here are some tips that 
may help if you have trouble.

If you use firefox, the very best method is to  install the adblock plus 
extension from adblockplus.org. When you install that extension it asks you 
to choose a subscription. This isn't talking about paid subscriptions, just 
an automatically updated list of filtering rules to block advertisements. 
This dialog box isn't well labeled but you want the one jaws calls radio 
button 1 of 5. It is most relevant to the USA I think. The things that are 
refreshing on facebook are probably ads and this will help. The other option 
will work with both browsers. Just go into personalized verbosity settings 
with insert+shift+v and turn on the setting to ignore inline frames. This 
doesn't catch them all, but I think it helps with the ones that like to 
refresh. At least I never had that happen to me. If that doesn't work then 
turn the page refresh option to off.

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,
Justin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronit Ovadia" <rovadia82 at gmail.com>
To: "NFB of California List" <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbc-info] social networking website resolution


> Hi LM nad others,
> I have found that using Firefox with Window-eyes works very wel with 
> facebook. I use firefox anyway because I like it better than internet 
> explorer and with window-eyes at least, it does pretty well. IT just takes 
> some getting used to to find everything. I haven't found anything that 
> won't read like you described, though. IF you have firefox or feel like 
> downloading it, try putting it on no page style under the view menu. That 
> should help you see everything on the page better.
> Hope this helps.
> Ronit
>
>
> Lisamaria Martinez, NOMC wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering what we've done about the social networking website 
>> resolution.
>>
>> I have desperately tried to learn the layout of the new FaceBook, but I 
>> swear the page is refreshing. Plus, certain aspects of the page just 
>> don't read well with JAWS. for instance, JAWS will say, "---- has 
>> accepted your friend request." I have no idea who may have accepted my 
>> friend request because JAWS doesn't read it. But something is there.
>>
>> It is getting to be quite frustrating especially since many groups, 
>> organizations, etc. are on FaceBook. My high school class reunion is 
>> starting to organize on FaceBook and I can't access everything.
>>
>> If we sued Target, why aren't we suing FaceBook?
>>
>> LM
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