What's the address you guys are using to email them?
I'm having a quickl look about here and can't see anything like a contact
us.
Dj Paddy
Keeping in touch with me:
Twitter Username- dj_paddy
Twitter RSS-
http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/4871941.rss
BLOG RSS-
http://feeds.feedburner.com/irishgeek
Email/msn contact: djpaddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Skype: djpaddy
My websites are mainly used for jumping off platforms, they are
http://www.djpaddy.co.uk
http://www.barry-toner.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Fowler" <col.fowler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 7:09 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Facebook - how to make it more accessible
Yep, that goes for me too! All we need to achieve now is for the site to
become WAI compliant.
Kind regards
Colin
Colin Fowler
Disability Consultant
Tel: 01582 483 283
Text/mobile: 07901 573 570
E mail:
col.fowler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.social-model.org.uk
disability@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Vanja Sudar
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:13 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Facebook - how to make it more accessible
This goes even further. I'm very impressed with facebook! I emailed them
baisicly telling them that I have difficulties signing up because I'm
blind and am unable to see their visual veryfication and asked if they
could help. Less than 5 hours after my email they set up my account for
me! I wish all website/companies were so responsive. I'm definitely very
impressed!
Vanja
http://www.sudar.co.uk
MSN messenger: sudar23@xxxxxxxxxxx
AIM: vanja121
Skype: vanja121
----- Original Message -----
From: Damon
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 4:24 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Facebook - how to make it more accessible
Hi!
Bit of progress here.
I was banging on about facebook.com the other week. It's the big social
networking site that everyone is talking and writing about. It's good in
order to network, keep in touch with friends and business acquaintances.
You can also find like-minded people there and all sorts. It seems that if
you're not on facebook, you're not a proper human being if you are to
believe The Guardian.
The main barrier to using it is the verification graphic that you need
to copy into a box at registration. Once beyond this point, you can use
many of the features but some features have a further verification graphic
that you need to get past in order to be able to add contacts, do email
etc.
I can now report, however, that after an email to the support team,
they have taken away verification graphics for my account. What this now
means is that I can use all of facebook's services. But at this stage it
still means you need to be able to read verification graphics at the point
of registration. Luckily though it's a once only thing now and they are
working on an audio captcha idea.
In order to get the graphics removed, go to the bottom of the page,
click on help and find the help section about problems with registration.
Get past all the FAQ stuff, you're looking for a form to fill in and send
to the team. Within about 24 hours your internal verification graphics
will be gone for good.
I've started a really informal chat with one of the people there who is
enthusiastic about accessibility too. She tells me she is now in contact
with a few jaws users and they are really keen to move their product on.
They have recently made their Gift Shop accessible. It works well.
Go and give it a go. I urge you. Since being on facebook I have
collected up around 21 friends and almost on a daily basis I am getting
people who know me or have known me suddnly seeing I'm there and adding me
to their friends list. I realise that talking about it in the abstract is
just that, rather abstract, so go and give it a go. It would be awesome to
create a blind network on there. And then offshoots can come out of, or
feed into, that network and it could be really positive and interesting.
And we can also help them hone the look and feel of their page, which
isn't too bad usability wise, but the point is they are listening and keen
to improve. Great news from a site with real egalitarian ambition.
...Damon
damon.rose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
skype: damonrose
London, England.
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