Let me say now, I've not tried Face book as yet, but my impression is that it's very challenging in the raw for most screen reader users. Some use the plainer, simpler, mobile interface and seem to get on better that way.
I know that a program or plug-in is available which aims to help with Face Book, and I think it was announced in Dean Martino's newsletter. I think too that Access to Go or whatever it's called - the former "Freedom key" also makes Face Book easier to use. Feel like I'm too old to want to bother with it myself, but it is certainly very much of today and very popular. Ray. Cory Samaha wrote: Raul, What about the controls that are supposed to show up as links, but are only recognized as static text to WE? Why is this happening? It would really be nice to be able to just hit enter on these links rather than depending on the mouse pointer. Yes it is doable, but I would say the experience is not very optimal. Is this a WE issue that will be corrected, or do we have to write to facebook? And if we have to write to facebook, what suggestions can we give them to make it more WE friendly? Many thanks! -----Original Message----- From: Raul A. Gallegos [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 5:30 PM To: GW Info Discussion List Subject: Re: Some issues with facebook I recently signed up to see what all the fuss was about and it's not too bad really. In some areas when you click a link or an edit box. You have to toggle browse mode, but that's about it. Good luck. Jed Barton wrote the following on 3/2/2009 5:28 PM: > Hey guys, > > Is it me, or is facebook a horrible web sight to use with windoweyes. > Here are some of the issues I am having. > When I click on someone and go to the link that says send them a message, > I'll press enter on it. > First of all, IE doesn't make the click sound. Then I'll look for the form > where I enter the subject and message body. It's a crap shoot, sometimes it > is there, but 90 percent of the time it's not. > Then sometimes I'll have to refresh it to get it to come up. > Any hints for getting around this sight? > > Thanks, > Jed > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original > sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and > your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending > your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search > form at the bottom of the page. > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body > of the message. -- Raul A. Gallegos -- GW Micro Technical Support Voice: 260-489-3671 -- Fax: 260-489-2608 WEB: http://www.gwmicro.com If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
