Wondering what the difference is between redrawing and refreshing? Edward
-----Original Message----- From: Larry Thacker Jr. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 3:52 PM To: 'Rebecca Ilniski'; [email protected] Subject: RE: Facebook and window-eyes I'm a little late to the game but since I didn't see anyone responding with good answers I'll try to help. First, some general suggestions. I haven't tried the mobile site but it does make sense that it would work better. I've discovered a new problem lately when opening the profile page where the screen must be redrawn before most of what's supposed to be there can be found. This is in Firefox 3.11. I do suggest using Firefox. IE exposes a lot of information you don't need and some of which you can't even use. You'll get less clutter with Firefox and unless IE 8 and/or WE 7.1 has improved the situation you will also find less of a slowdown. Last time I tried to use FB on IE it was very very slow when working with edit boxes. In addition to the other things people have told you, another gotcha is that FB puts up a lot of popups as you're doing things. Truth be told I cheat and use what little vision I have to click in these, but there is generally a bit of related text you should be able to search for. The trouble is knowing when to do it. If you activate a link and nothing seems to happen, try a redraw and then some strategic searches. Now for the specifics. For the benefit of others I'll simplify this a bit more than may be necessary for you. I'm going to do it without cheating and describe what I'm doing. First I went to my profile by finding and activating the profile link. The I searched for info. When that didn't work I redrew the screen and tried again. The first find lands you on the word Information under your picture. The second find should land you on the info tab link unless that word happens to appear in something you've posted. Next I searched for the word "edit" until I found "Edit Contact Information." You could of course search for the whole phrase now that you know it. Activating that link didn't seem to do anything, so I redrew the screen. (Note someone used the word refresh. Don't do that in this case. Use the redraw hotkey.) Now you will find the section expanded. At the bottom of the section is an on-click that says "Add another screen name." Again no feedback occurs when you activate this. Another redraw is required and then a find on the above phrase. Navigating up from the on-click you find a new blank screen name box and a combo box defaulting to AIM. From here you can activate the edit control, enter your screen name, then tab to the combo box and select your service. When you're done go back into Browse Mode and find "Save." Click that and you've got your screen name added. The other item you want to add should have a similar process, but as I remember from my first experience with Facebook it can be a bit more trouble. Facebook will try to predict what you want to enter. You may find Browse Mode activating at random as you try to type in the name. Insert-A while in BM will stop this. I imagine you can type in whatever you want. The disadvantage may be that if you don't get an exact match to what FB already knows about people who search on the item won't find you. You might be able to use the mouse to find FB's suggestions and pick the right one. Hope that helps some. Larry http://facebook.com/larry.thacker.jr -----Original Message----- From: Rebecca Ilniski [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 4:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Facebook and window-eyes Hi everyone. I'm having trouble editing my profile on facebook. First I want to add me as an Edinboro alum of 99 and then I would like to add screen names. The site is difficult to navigate and edit using window-eyes. Has anyone had any success with this and if so how do I go about doing this? Rebecca Ilniski and Nuncio facebook: www.facebook.com/rebeccai5 twitter: www.twitter.com/rilniski 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. 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