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
