[nfb-talk] Facebook

[Lloyd Rasmussen]

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
To: Blind Talk Mailing List
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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