Hi Peter and All
I recently joined Facebook. I use a mixture of JAWS and Zoomtext so
maybe not the best source of info but a few comments;
--I found several smart younger blind people I know from another event
on FB
--There is a Facebook group with some analysis of accessibility. Most
of the board is accessible fine except for a few little areas.
--There tends to be a lot of photo and video content and of course
hardly any of it has tags other than the magical index numbers. One of
these days when I have time, I will look up how to tag things and again
exhort my friends to tag their stuff. One could of course just set
one's screen reader to note only tagged graphics. but...
Hope these comments help.
Dorene Cornwell
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From: Peter Altschul <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:17 am
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Accessibility of MySpace (oops, I meant Facebook)
Thanks for the response – and I meant Facebook
not MySpace. So, if anyone else has anything to say about the
accessibility of
FACEBOOK, I would welcome it.
Thanks, Peter
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Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009
10:06 AM
To: 'Peter Altschul';
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Subject: RE: [VICUG-L]
Accessibility of MySpace
My Space is not your best choice for
accessibility. Face Book is better. JAWS is also not your best
choice for using any social networking site. In my opinion, System
Access
from Serotek is far superior in this particular arena. Or if you don't
want to actually change screen readers, you can subscribe to the System
Access
Mobile Network which gets you two different things. First off, it is
compatible with face book, MSN, AIM. Second, it has it's own social
networking
client which enables you to interface with all of those networks from
one
central application. It is self voicing. It is really jazzing up
its users. If you are interested, go to Serotek.com.
Bill
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Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009
8:46 AM
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Subject: [VICUG-L] Accessibility
of MySpace
Greetings:
My wife has offered to set up a MySpace account for me.
Once properly set up, how well will I be able to interact
with it (i.e., how accessible is it to someone who uses JAWS)?
Thanks, Peter
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