I think tagging can be done in m.facebook.com or at least when I went
through it yesterday it could be done.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Jones" <[email protected]>
To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 3:49 AM
Subject: Re: tagging somebody on Facebook using Safari on Mac
Hello Laurel & Sarah,
On my Macs I’m currently able to tag FB Friends from a popup list using the
following steps:
1. This assumes the latest versions of MacOS and Safari are installed,
QuickNav is turned off, and that javascript is enabled in Safari (Safari /
Preferences / Security / Enable Javascript).
2. Go to the main Facebook site www.facebook.com. Note that this will not
work on the mobile Facebook site, m.facebook.com.
3. On the main Facebook page, navigate to and activate the button labeled
“Update Status.” VO now announces “What’s on your mind” and I can start
typing my status update here.
4. When I want to tag someone in the body of the status, I type the “@“
symbol followed by the first few letters of their name, as you mentioned,
and then I can use one of the following three methods to select and insert
the desired name into the status. Note that all of these methods require
Javascript to be enabled in Safari.
Method 1: Press the down arrow key with no modifier keys and VO
automatically moves into the list of matching names and I can highlight the
friend I want to tag and then press VO+Spacebar to insert the name into the
status and resume typing.
Method 2: if your Mac has a mouse or trackpad and if you are comfortable
using it and if you have your VO Verbosity set to "speak text under mouse
after delay of zero seconds” you might be able to press VO+Command+F5 to
bring the mouse pointer to the VO cursor and then move the mouse pointer
down through the popup list of names and click once to insert the name.
Method 3: Open the Item Chooser menu (VO+I) and type the first few letters
you typed in step 4 above. This narrows my item chooser down to the list of
names in the popup list and I can then navigate and select the desired name
using normal Item Chooser / VO commands.
BTW, On my Macs I normally use the FB mobile site, m.facebook.com, but I’m
not able to tag friends using the mobile site, which is why I wrote my
instructions using the standard FB site.
Also, I’ve not yet tried removing the last names from a tag, so I can’t
speak to whether or not that works in Safari on the Mac.
Lastly, while the folks at FB are undeniably making great strides in terms
of site accessibility, I have a sense that they are still prone to making
random, unannounced back-end changes that alter the layout and behavior of
the site. Thus, YMMV.
HTH, and please let us know if this works for you,
Bryan
On Jun 16, 2014, at 6:49 PM, Laurel and Stockard <[email protected]>
wrote:
Now, for the bad news. The process should be the same for the mac, hit the
@ sign and then begin typing a name, and a drop down menu should appear
and you should be able to select the person, hit backspace if you wanna
get rid of the last name, etc. The part that we VO users can't get around
is that once you start typing, no drop down menus seem to appear. I don't
think Voiceover is recognizing the menu, assuming it's there. I'm not sure
if it's fixable or not, but maybe somebody more knowledgable than I can
take this info and do something with it.
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