Re: Make Facebook's live chat accessible to blind screen reader users?
- From: Tyler Littlefield <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:12:19 -0600
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-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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