Just curious, has anyone tried GooglePlus? If so, how is it in terms of accessibility? Cheers, Donna On Jul 3, 2012, at 9:49 AM, Maxwell Ivey wrote:
> hello; we are all frustrated with Facebook, but its just so hard to give it > up completely. what i do is to subscribe to as many people as possible out > of my friends list. then i set notifications to send me an email anytime > anything happens. then i just hit reply in my mail program. when i want to > post a photo, video, or status update i go to the regular Facebook and use > the control option i for a finder menu and choose update. then i can arrow > left or right to find the field i want. If someone sends me a friend > request, i click the link in the message for accept or ignore. i wish you > luck, max > On Jul 3, 2012, at 9:12 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> Before I give up and consider deleting my Facebook account, I'll bring up >> discussion to see if any of you have considered the same frustrations when >> using Facebook. >> >> I've read on Applevis that setting Safari to react like Firefox or Internet >> explorer should make the mobile site of Facebook very useable. That won't >> work for me all the time. I experience things like the language changes, >> normal links which I could read a few seconds ago are translated into >> english graphical links, and when I click on these, nothing happens. The >> only way I can come back to the site again is by reloading the page, and if >> that won't work, I type m.facebook.com again in the address bar to reload >> the page. Then I'm able to navigate the site for a few minutes, and then the >> same happens over and over again. this makes the site nearly impossible and >> very frustrating to use! >> >> I've got a mail from Facebook telling me that someone has tagged me on a >> picture. If I click the link to show what picture it is and to comment, the >> normal unusable Facebook site comes up. I expected to find this notification >> on the mobile version, but I can't find it anywhere while going through my >> frontpage. How do I figure out what picture some random person has tagged me >> on, and how do I add a comment so I can ask this question? >> >> Each time I'm trying to give Facebook a chance I run into issues like this. >> Every time I spoke to other blind people who're using Facebook, they don't >> use these features, they keep say just use the mobile site or they don't >> have a Mac where all these issues seems to happen. The Facebook support says >> that screenreader users just have to use the mobile site, but what do we do >> when they only supports Internet explorer? >> I'm really considering deleting my Facebook acount and make the totally >> switch to Twitter. If family and friends won't follow, well, that's their >> choice. I find myself spending hours on trying to navigate the Facebook >> site. SOmetimes it works and other times it's just impossible. >> >> I really hope to get lots of great input here... >> Best regards: >> Søren Jensen >> Mail & MSN: >> [email protected] >> Website: >> http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
