[Nfbc-info] Farmville on Facebook?

[Jim Barbour]

I'm not so sure about that.  What law do you think Facebook is
violating?

Jim

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 02:38:04PM -0700, ckrugman at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> A violation is a violation regardless if it is committed by a web site 
> owner or a third party developer who is providing the service as a 
> contractor or subcontractor. The law doesn't exempt third parties.
> Chuck
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Barbour" <jbar at barcore.com>
> To: "NFB of California List" <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 2:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfbc-info] Farmville on Facebook?
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> So, I wonder if 3rd party developed facebook games count as a
> violation of state or federal law?
>
> Jim
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 01:29:28PM -0700, ckrugman at sbcglobal.net wrote:
>> Supposedly Disability Rights Advocates is interested in pursuing cases
>> involving various web accessibility issues as they had a representative
>> at the convention.
>> Chuck
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Chambers"
>> <regenerative at earthlink.net>
>> To: "NFB of California List" <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:12 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfbc-info] Farmville on Facebook?
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>>
>>
>> So,
>> If we could lean on Target.com to make their web store more
>> accessible, can we do the same to Facebook and Farmville?
>>
>> Fred, who has real plants, animals, and weeds to get to.
>>
>>
>> On 27/10/2009, at 9:03 AM, tina thomas wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Fred- Yes for the most part FB is accessible. However games such as
>>> Farmville, vampire Wars, pirates and Café World are not accessible.
>>> The only
>>> game that I found to be  friendly to screen readers is Mafia wars  but
>>> there
>>> are some challenges with that game as well.
>>> Tina
>>>
>>> "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own
>>> instead of
>>> someone else's."
>>> - Billy Wilder
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nfbc-info-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbc-info-
>>> bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Fred Chambers
>>> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 9:46 PM
>>> To: NFB of California List
>>> Subject: [Nfbc-info] Farmville on Facebook?
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Does anyone have experience with Facebook?
>>> I've found it to be fairly accessible.
>>> Applications or games like Farmville do not seem to work with any  of my
>>> screenreaders.
>>> What have y'all figured out?  Is Farmville accessible at all?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Fred
>>>
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