Hi AIM supports FB chat as well. I don't use facebook myself, but I listened to the March FS Podcast yesterday and AIM were demonstrated. AIM uses the FB chat APIs and you can chat with facebook buddies just like AIM buddies. www.aim.com PS: I don't use AIM either, so I have not tried this myself. Listen to the Podcast for more info. -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared Wright Sent: 17. april 2010 07:29 To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Make Facebook's live chat accessible to blind screen reader users? If you google for "Pigeon" you won't get very far. Try "Pidgin". Whoops! On 4/17/2010 1:16 AM, Jared Wright wrote: > Indeed, if Facebooks' native chat in the browser is too much work, > Miranda and Pigeon both have very good plugins to the Facebook chat > interface. I have many sighted friends who think I'm nuts for using > the browser flavor, in fact. Maybe I am. > On 4/17/2010 1:12 AM, Tyler Littlefield wrote: >> People tend to create patitions and scream and yell at devs before >> they'll find workarounds. fb chat works, though it takes a bit of >> work to make it so. Much better ways exist such as miranda (I believe >> it has a fb add-on), adium, etc. >> Thanks, >> Tyler Littlefield >> http://tds-solutions.net >> Twitter: sorressean >> >> On Apr 16, 2010, at 11:09 PM, Jared Wright wrote: >> >>> 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-Bli nd-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 >> __________ >> View the list's information and change your settings at >> //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind >> > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind