RE: Make Facebook's live chat accessible to blind screen reader users?
- From: Øyvind Lode <oyvind.lode@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:13:24 +0200
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
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