---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Fernando Botelho <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 13:51:37 -0200 Subject: [F 1 2 3] Basic information that might be helpful To: "F123 Access Users (English)" <[email protected]>
Hi everyone, Some of you might not have received an email with this introductory information, so I am including it here in case it helps those who are getting started with F123 Access. It now includes instructions on how to activate or deactivate accessibility packages for Youtube and Facebook: This e-mail includes: * Links to Install Firefox and the F123 Access Extension * E-mail address to subscribe to the F123 Access Google Group * Web WhatsApp with F123 Access * Activating and Deactivating Accessibility Packages * Facebook with F123 Access * Suggestions for F123 Access developers If your question is not addressed in this message, please participate in our group. The e-mail to subscribe to F123 Access group is included below. * Links to Install Firefox and the F123 Access Extension To install Mozilla Firefox please visit: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ To install F123 Access please visit the following link with your Firefox browser: https://f123access.com/intro_en Please make sure you have "Private Browsing" turned off. Whenever "Private Browsing" is on, all extensions are automatically turned off, including F123 Access. This can also happen if you have Firefox configured to never remember history. * E-mail address to subscribe to the F123 Access Google Group To participate on our F123 Access Google group, please send a blank e-mail to the following address: [email protected] * Web WhatsApp with F123 Access At this time, the Web WhatsApp page is not accessible to users of screen-readers (despite the popularity of the service among the blind). To allow screen-reader users around the world to have the convenience of their full-size computer keyboard when using WhatsApp, and to demonstrate the power of our technology, Web WhatsApp became the first publicly available site reformatted by F123 Access. In this section we describe the process of signing-up and then using Web WhatsApp with F123 Access. Please note that because of the way the WhatsApp team designed the service, it is necessary that you have a smartphone with WhatsApp installed and working, preferably through a WiFi connection, so that you may use WhatsApp on your computer. The WiFi suggestion is merely in order to prevent that you use-up all your cellular data plan with WhatsApp's frequent updates, as accessing the service through your computer will still cause your phone to constantly update. Since Web WhatsApp requires users to sign-in by scanning a QR code with their phones, we suggest that most users ask for sighted assistance when signing-in for the first or second time. If you check the box on the WhatsApp web page where you have to scan the QR code, where it says "Keep me logged in", you will only have to scan it once. In any case, it is usually possible to learn the right position for the phone and then scan the QR code independently. The process is as follows: 1. Open WhatsApp on your phone and select Settings and then Web WhatsApp. On some phones, when you are on the WhatsApp screen, you need to find the menu button and select it to get these options: New Group, New Transmission, Web WhatsApp, Status and Settings. In that case, select "Web WhatsApp". 2. Open Web WhatsApp on your Mozilla Firefox browser after installing F123 Access. The address for Web WhatsApp is: https://web.WhatsApp.com/ 3. Then position your phone vertically in front of your computer screen with its camera facing the screen. The touch screen will be facing you while the outside or back camera is facing the screen. On my laptop computer the distance is more or less the same as the spacebar and the phone is held left of center. In other words, I hold it vertically right above the left-most edge of the spacebar. I move it left and right a bit if the login does not happen immediately. 4. You will usually hear a beep or feel a vibration when login takes place. If you are using screen magnification, have screen brightness turned too low, or have a dialog box open on the screen, login will not happen this easily. If the above steps are not working for you, please ask someone sighted to check if your screen brightness is normal, if magnification is not active, and if there is nothing blocking the normal view on the screen, i.e. the QR code. 5. Once you are logged-in, you will notice that you can easily jump from one recent conversation to another using 2 and Shift+2 for level 2 headers, or just H and Shift H if you prefer. You can then choose one of those contacts or groups by pressing Enter and your screen reader focus will be placed on the edit field to write to that contact. Buttons and links that were previously not labeled will now be labeled, and you can quickly read messages exchanged with H and Shift H. But if you just want to see the messages sent by your contact, 4 and Shift 4 will give you those, while 5 and Shift 5 will show you just your messages to that person or group. The above F123 Access convention of using level 4 headers for text messages sent to you and level 5 headers for the messages you sent, is the same we use on Facebook chat. Now, with F123 Access, you are ready to use Web WhatsApp! * Activating and Deactivating Accessibility Packages F123 Access improves the accessibility of web pages thanks to special computer code designed to correct problems. We divide that software code in what we call accessibility packages. Some accessibility packages are specific to certain web pages, such as WhatsApp or Facebook, while others are generic, and can make corrections in a wide variety of pages. You can activate or deactivate your accessibility packages by checking or unchecking them under "My Preferences", in the F123 Access menu. You may quickly open the F123 Access menu with Alt+3 and once you enter the preferences option, you will find two sections. One contains settings and the other lists the packages available to you. Everyone has WhatsApp, Facebook, and Youtube. However, members of our testers' group might also have access to additional packages. Everyone who has helped others on our support Google Group or WhatsApp group is eligible to join our testers' group. Contact us if you are interested in joining. * Facebook with F123 Access Here are the main changes to Facebook with F123 Access: Facebook Headers: The major sections on the Facebook page can be found with your screen-reader's command for level 1 headers. This is usually 1 and Shift+1. Level 4 headers are used for names of friends and level 5 for stories on the newsfeed. Level 6 header indicates the button to load more posts on your newsfeed. Friend Requests and Newsfeed: Depending on your selection on the "My Preferences" settings, these lists will be either structured as tables or with headings, to make reviewing and acting on them easier and faster for you. Making a post on Facebook: It is now possible to see all of the settings for privacy, etc. and to change them while making a post. Facebook Short-Cut Keys: Alt C will place you on the keyboard shortcut menu where you can use the letter F to jump to the search box for that page, or the H key to jump to the home page of that site. Facebook Chat: You can now hear an audio notification when you receive a chat message and you can quickly review previous messages looking for level 4 and level 5 headers with your screen reader. Messages sent to you are shown with level 4 headers, and messages sent by you are shown with level 5 headers. This is the same arrangement F123 Access uses on Web WhatsApp. You can also easily send a text message by pressing the 'Enter' key when you are finished writing. There is no need to press Tab and then click on the 'Send' button. * Suggestions for F123 Access developers Suggestions are always welcome and appreciated. It is thanks to suggestions from our users that F123 Access improves daily. But they are not always implemented because in such a complex technical project like F123 Access, the sequence and priority of which features are implemented, do not only depend on what is visible to our users, but also on internal processes. When we distribute updates that make new features available to the user, this will be reported in the support list created in Google, so that those interested in those improvements can have a chance to try them. If F123 Access has been updated and there is no notice on the list, users can assume that changes were made to improve the speed and/or security of the software and not its functionality. Considering the size of our task list, the only way to speed up the process is with more resources. If anyone has contacts on a foundation or other entity that can support our project, please let us know at: [email protected] Best regards, The F123 Team Help a blind friend by sharing this link: https://F123Access.com/intro_en -- If you would like to stop receiving messages, please send an e-mail to the address: [email protected] Software installation and other information can be found at https://F123Access.com/intro_en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "F123 Access Users (English)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/F123-Access-English/565DC209.4050308%40F123.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- efforts may fail but don't fail to make efforts. 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