Re: Facebook accessibility - Did you know

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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