Re: Facebook Accessibility Really Sucks
I'm using mobile Facebook most of the time. I have to agree that the regular Facebook site really sucks sometimes. For example, I just tried both in Firefox and Chrome to access "What's on your mind" edit field by using the quick nav key E with NVDA. The result is, it will allow me to focus search box, but after that it will say "no more edit fields" in Firefox, or in case of Chrome, it'll skip "what's on your mind" and instead will throw me at comment input field for the last published status on a news feed. The workaround for me was to go to first subheading at the news feed with H key, than go to "what's on your mind" with either Shift+F, Shift+E or whatever similar worked. But this works sometimes, and sometimes doesn't.
Next, since I'm Windows 10 user, I've tried Facebook universal app, AKA Metro app. The first time I've tried it, it's accessibility wasn't so bad, but far from
very good. Now they even made it worse, since I can't focus edit fields for entering username and password anymore, and I tried both with NVDA and Narrator.
And when we are at Narrator, as a last thing, I've tried accessing regular Facebook site with Narrator and Microsoft Edge, by using Narrator's scan mode. And I was really surprised. It actually allowed me to get to "what's on your mind" field. Now that's interesting, probably should try it with NVDA as well, since it's getting better support for Edge.
And as a conclusion: For me personally mobile Facebook site or Android/iOS app is currently way to go for accessing Facebook. I also like Twitter more, despite the 140 character limit in tweets, but the problem is that here in ex Yugoslavia area Facebook is just more popular, and I should say Unfortunately at this time.
Edit: Just to mention that I'm talking about Narrator/Edge combination in current Win10 insider build, a
nd not current official version. This is what will come in Creators Update this year.
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