Not to mention you can use the new version of AIM and simply chat with
your facebook buddies that way.
Take care,
Sina
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared Wright
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 1:09 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Make Facebook's live chat accessible to blind screen reader
users?
What are you talking about? It's already accessible; I've got a whole bevy
of chats going right now.
On 4/16/2010 8:35 PM, Bryan Garaventa wrote:
Hi, I thought I'd pass this on since it may be of interest to fellow
screen reader users.
Since there really is no reason why Facebook can't add screen reader
accessible functionality to the live chat feature, and
it would be nice to be able to communicate with family and friends using
the same features that everyone else uses, I created the
fan page at
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Make-Face-Books-Live-Chat-Accessible-to-Blind-Users/109349762439299?ref=ts
<http://www.facebook.com/#%21/pages/Make-Face-Books-Live-Chat-Accessible-to-Blind-Users/109349762439299?ref=ts>
In the hope that, if enough people become fans of the idea, it will act as
a petition to get Facebook's attention. So if you
use Facebook, and would like to see live chat become an accessible
feature, please consider becoming a fan of the page.
The UI implementation that I've proposed through the fan page does the
following:
1) Automatically announces the latest message as soon as it arrives,
regardless where the focus is positioned on the
page;
2) Is fully accessible using JAWS 11 with IE7-8 and Firefox3;
3) Is fully accessible using NVDA with IE8 and Firefox3;
4) Can be visually modified using CSS to fit any display without
impairing automatic accessibility.
Best wishes,
Bryan
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