1. Your best bet for chatting may be a 3rd party solution. I have had a couple of chats with a blind friend on the standard Facebook site, but it is not easy to do and I am not sure I could have managed it at all without the aid of magnification. He was not using Window-Eyes. Miranda IM <http://www.miranda-im.org/> is a workable solution. It will also give you access to several other chat protocols if you want them.
2. Reading through your news feed on the mobile site is pretty straightforward, but you get a lot of clutter that there doesn't seem to be an easy way to eliminate. I have found that navigating by paragraphs helps with that. You can arrow down to get to any information on a post that isn't read that way or to activate the comment or like links. You get to skip over the photo links which are extremely annoying. One thing to note. After the first page, the "see more stories" link will be jumped over with the paragraph function. You can arrow back up to it or sometimes it's quicker to shift-P back to the last post and then arrow down. 3. To post a status message, just type in the edit box near the top of the news feed screen on the mobile site. If you have gone on to subsequent news feed screen, you can go back home or to your profile. _____ Larry Thacker Jr. <http://www.lionsrealm.net/> http://www.lionsrealm.net <http://facebook.com/larry.thacker.jr> http://facebook.com/larry.thacker.jr <http://twitter.com/lthackerjr> http://twitter.com/lthackerjr From: Tom Coburn [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 10:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: facebook tips does anyone have any tips on getting around on facebook using window-eyes 7.5x? I know facebook took down the lite version, and now there's the mobile version, but I've been having trouble with timeline, since now facebook is switching everyones profiles over to timeline one by one it seems. What I want to do on facebook, 1. instigate or take part in chats 2. read and reply to wall posts 3. post status messages been having trouble figuring out how to do that even on the mobile version, so I was just wondering if anyone had any tips for facebook specifically? I mean, is there like a series of tabs you press to get to specific things? like tab 8 times to get to your status, or ctrl-shift-U to get to this then tab 4 times and down arrow once, or something along those lines? thanks, Tom Coburn 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. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
