[Nfbc-info] Fwd: Fw: How to Make a Facebook Chat Widget Automatically Accessible

[Chela Robles]

I thought since Facebook has become a topic to several on these lists
I'm blind carbon copying, this may be of interest...I'm not in any way
affiliated with this and therefore suggest you do this at your own
risk leisure because it takes a lot of patience...which I still use
standalone clients for this...WindowsLive Messenger and Skype as of
now since AIM doesn't like my HPG72 Windows 7 64-bit laptop.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa at whatsock.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:40:46 -0800
Subject: Fw: How to Make a Facebook Chat Widget Automatically Accessible
To: accessible at googlegroups.com

Likely some of you have already seen this, but I thought I'd pass it
on for those who haven't.
The core concept is a sound one, and can be applied to any chat-based widget.

----- Original Message -----
From: Bryan Garaventa
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 11:41 PM
Subject: How to Make a Facebook Chat Widget Automatically Accessible


This is something I've been thinking about off and on over the last
couple years. My family uses Facebook chat, so I figured it would be
pretty cool to be able to do the same using the website. Not really as
it turned out. Conceptually it wouldn't take too much to make it work
though, so about six months ago, I wrote detailed instructions,
lovingly crafted with fabulous pros, showing the Facebook folks how
this could be accomplished with minimal effort and maximum impact for
everyone.

I thought it was brilliant; a true masterpiece;
they ignored me of course...

So, I decided to do it myself anyway, and here it is! Just as described...

The Accessible Chat Dialog Module is a Facebook-style UI component
that renders an automatically accessible chat dialog for screen reader
and keyboard only users.
Instructions:
1) Type your name and activate the Start Chat button to open the chat dialog,
then type into the Message field and press Enter to submit a chat message.
2) Mouse users can drag the chat window to a new fixed location by
holding down the left-mouse button on any textual area of the chat
dialog.
3) New messages will automatically be announced to screen reader users
when they arrive.
4) Screen reader users can press Ctrl+` to hear the last 5 messages
announced when the Message text field has focus.

The ability to drag the chat dialog to a new location on the viewport
isn't something Facebook provides, but I thought it would be a nice
touch anyway... :)

Now, this is important, the chat dialog is a live server application,
so anything you type will be seen by every person around the world who
happens to have the dialog open at the same time, regardless whether
it is running from the website or locally using the download, so
please play nicely...

Demo: http://whatsock.com/modules/accessible_chat_dialog_module/demo.htm

All the best,
Bryan

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