RE: Make Facebook's live chat accessible to blind screen reader users?
- From: "Harmony Neil" <harmonylm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:41:50 +0100
I use Miranda i m and talk to MSN, AIM and Facebook chat people at the same
time.
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alphonso
McFadden
Sent: 19 April 2010 6:38 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Make Facebook's live chat accessible to blind screen reader
users?
on the computer or the phone!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 8:05 PM
Subject: RE: Make Facebook's live chat accessible to blind screen reader
users?
> 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-Bli
nd-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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