Re: accessible facebook?

Laura,

Just a couple of suggestions on that question. First is that in the society 
at large, most people are sighted, and most people will appreciate seeing 
what another  person looks like. this isn't simply phony or a beauty contest 
issue, though of course some people are like that. But everyone except those 
who can't see other people want very much to see them, both in daily life 
and also online. it's really normal, and just because I may no longer be 
able to see what other people look like, that doesn't mean I begrudge them a 
look at me.

I say this as someone who could see people and photographs of people for 
more than fifty years of my life, whereupon retinal degeneration robbed me 
of the central vision that's necessary to see faces, to read, and other 
detail vision. My far peripheral vision isn't all gone yet, so I'm what you 
might call a partial. But experience tells me that photos are far from 
either absurd in general! Honestly.

I'm not currently on Facebook or any other social network, but I do have a 
personal Web site, and there are a couple of photos of myself on the home 
page and bio page that trusted friends have taken of me and helped me choose 
for this purpose, describing each photograph to me so I could get an idea 
about what each one looked like and whether it flattered me or at least 
didn't present me too unattractively.

hope that helps. Others may feel differently about such things, and I say 
right here that I don't care to argue about it philosophically. It's not an 
abstract or philosophical concept, at least not by my lights. I'm simply 
speaking from my own experience.

Joel

From: "Laura Shumate" <LShumate@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 12:15 PM
Subject: RE: accessible facebook?


Why would blind people want to update pictures anyway?
Laura Shumate
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-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
Of May and Wynter
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 2:21 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: accessible facebook?

Yes, it is the mobile version of facebook. There's a few things you can't do
on it like join groups and update your pictures, things like that.
I believe the address is

www.m.facebook.com

Heheheh, if it's not right let me know and I'll check again. It's saved in
my favorites so never type the thing.

May off to Edmonton Alberta on the 25th.
Am I ready to see some people there?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Samara Raine" <samararaine@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: accessible facebook?


> Did they actually create one? I'd be interested in it myself.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave" <dave.mehler@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 12:33 PM
> Subject: accessible facebook?
>
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm using facebook with jfw10 and i think it's the javascript but
>> it's really not going so good. I remember a while back of talk of an
>> accessible facebook site, but didn't pay it no mind as i didn't have an
>> account. Can someone give me the address? Also, can you do the same
>> things
>> with accessible facebook with jfw as you can with the regular version?
>> Thanks.
>> Dave.
>>
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