Very helpful. Thanks, Gretchen. Peter
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gretchen Maune" <[email protected] To: <[email protected] Date sent: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:06:04 -0500 Subject: [ATI] twitter and facebook and such
Hi!
I hope I can provide more help later with this/these topics, but
too much on
my plate right this sec. I did read this though and wanted to
throw in a
few cents while I had a min to spare. I use both of these a
great deal, and
twitter more so than facebook. I have the accounts linked so
that when I
post on twitter, which I prefer to do, my tweets show up on my
facebook as
well, and so, while I get on twitter anywhere from 1 to 4 times a
day, I
only trudge around on facebook approx 1 to 3 times a week. I do
fairly well
with these bc I used them before I went blind a few years ago,
and so I can
picture how they're laid out, and I knew how they worked back
then and how
things looked, etc (sorry, that was a bit redundant). But, yes,
it is true
that both sites, as well as sites I also use like myspace, have
all gone
through many changes, esp. facebook. It often happens that a
month after
you discover what a handful of unlabeled links do on a section of
facebook,
their evil programmers will revamp the site again and your
starting from
square one. Using facebook with JAWS, (and, I'm told from many
of my
frustrated sighted friends, using it with sight), requires a
great amount of
patience, (which I often don't have, but I use it anyway bc way
too many
people are on it to afford boycotting it.)
Twitter is much better, (and when I'm saying this, I'm not
really talking
about the actual www.twitter.com page), for a variety of reasons.
Some of
these being less games, less pics, less people posting about
completely
inconsequential things.
While I do recognize the great benefits of the quitter app, and I
know a
plethora of blind folks who use it, I personally prefer and
recommend
www.easychirp.com (formerly known as accessible twitter, but they
were
forced to change their name). It is not something you download,
it is
simply an alternative website interface for twitter. I prefer it
over
quitter bc quitterr is there 24/7 basically, always ready for you
to check
out your twitter feed, and always ready for you to tweet, i.e.
always there
to distract you from work. Having easychirp, a page you
actively have to
navigate to and sign in and such, keeps twitter from being the
distracting
time suck for me that it could be. I've used accessible
twitter/easy chirp
for years now, and love it.
For the iPhone, I, and most of the other blind folks I know on
twitter,
recommend using the app tweetlist. I've tried some others, and I
definitely
prefer it over the other twitter apps that are out right now.
Ok, off to work!
-Gretchen
www.twitter.com/gmaune
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