Re: Facebook accessibility - Did you know
- From: Yardbird <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:50:28 -0700
Sue,
Just to confirm, I'm less than wholeheartedly enthusiastic about Facebook and
how it's some to overwhelm a certain levee of social reality. I'm ambivalent
about it, shall we say. But I, like you, want to feel at least marginally
connected with it, so I signed up, often use the stripped-down mobile site just
to see what messages have appeared on my wall and respond to them if I wish,
and so forth. I don't go cruising all over the site and do a bunch of things.
It's like a jungle to me, and I don't need to spend my time and effort this
way. But it's no use ranting against it, because it's simply there, and life
keeps changing. Besides, for anyone who keeps up with current events especially
via online newspapers and magazines, as I do, Facebook has been praised,
excoriated, and everything in between for so many months or even longer by now
that it seems absurdly redundant (vocab attention, A.S.!) to even bother. Just
do something with it or forgo it or, like/as they say, whatever.
What a world, huh?
Joel
----- Original Message -----
From: Sue B
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: Facebook accessibility - Did you know
Yardbird,
Thank you for your comments. It is just the sort of specific information I was
looking for. I'm not a huge fan of Facebook myself because it seems like a
waste of time. That is a bit too editorial I'm sure. But it seems that I'm a
bit out of step with the rest of the world with that attitude, so I want to
point those I teach in the direction of useful information when ever possible.
The alternate Facebook site is one of those things.
Sue B.
Yardbird wrote:
sue,
I've used the accessible version a few times, which as you probably know was
simply designed to present a less cluttered interface for people looking at it
on their cell phones and PDAs, yes? It was not some big bow to the needs of the
blind. Not being cynical, just saying.
that said, it's very stripped down, so much so that on the home page there's
very little of the content on the "real" home page. So even though it feels
like a relief not to be faced with the cluttered, jabbering, constantly
self-refreshing regular home page, you're actually missing a lot of stuff.
I don't know. I'm not a big Facebook fan or skillful Facebook jaws jockey,
but that's one impression.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sue B
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 5:15 AM
Subject: Facebook accessibility - Did you know
Hi all,
Has anyone else tried the accessible version of Facebook's site. You can find
it at: http://m.facebook.com
As more people have asked in training about Facebook I've been trying to come
up with instructions and quick ways to get places and such. I decided to read
their help center to see if they mentioned anything about screen readers and
sure enough they did! I sent this link on to a former client yesterday who said
she'd been struggling with Facebook for weeks. I had a note back from her
already this morning saying that she was able to find everything she'd been
looking for on the regular site using this accessible version. It would be
interesting to hear other feedback on this.
Sue B.
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