[Nfbc-info] about Facebook chat

[Angela fowler]

Hello Jim,
	Could you shoot me an email off list? I'd like to ask you a few
technical questions about this stuff. 
fowlers at syix.com
Thank you,
Angela Fowler 

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbc-info-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbc-info-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jim Barbour
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 3:36 PM
To: NFB of California List
Subject: Re: [Nfbc-info] about Facebook chat

Hey Deepa,

<Deepa, if you could post this to them CABS listserve, I'd appreciate it.
I'm not a member, so can't post there easily.

I've been using facebook lately and I recognize that they've started using
more ajax in their website, which makes things easier for sighted folks, and
is sure to cause us problems.

As has been noted elsewhere, using the latest versions of jaws (jaws 10),
window eyes (not sure), and firefox (3.x) will improve things.
Firefox is a replacement for your internet explorer browser and can be found
here http://www.mozilla.org/firefox

Alternatively, you can try using the mobile version of facebook.
Mobile doesn't mean you have to use it from your mobile phone, it just means
that it is a version of facebook which will work better on mobile phones.
Try pointing Internet Explorer at http://m.facebook.com/  Note that you'll
need internet explorer 7.
Internet explorer 6 won't work.  You can find out which version of IE you're
using by going to the help menu, and selecting "about internet explorer"

Hope this helps,

Jim

On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 02:31:46PM -0800, deepa goraya wrote:
> Hello Listers,
> 
>     About Facebook chat, yes there is a popping sound when someone sends
you a chat message, but the popping sound only happens when you receive
their first message. For any messages following from the same person, there
is no sound at all. You just have to keep checking the messages above the
edit box to see if any new one has come in. At least this applies to JAWS
users. I have JAWS 9.0. If you need more clarification, feel free to email
me at dgoraya at ucla.edu.
>     Also, just to throw this out, lately, I've been noticing that when I
want to write on someone's wall, I go to the edit box to type the posting
but JAWS freezes and won't read me what I'm typing anymore. It takes forever
to read what I've written after I'm done typing. It only goes back to
reading the message properly after I've posted it. The same applies for
sending a private message to someone. It didn't used to do that before, just
recently. It always used to read my message back right away before I sent
the private message, or before I tabbed to the post button. Has anyone else
experienced this in the last two or three weeks?
> 
> Deepa Goraya
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