Make Facebook's live chat accessible to blind screen reader users?
- From: "Bryan Garaventa" <bgaraventa11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:35:27 -0700
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
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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