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From: Srinivasu Chakravarthula
Date: Nov 1, 2012 1:44AM

Hi All,
I did some off-line conversation with the accessibility team at Facebook
and they are pretty responsive and in fact, carefully looking at the issues
reproduced. I just forwarded them the below feedback too.

I'm certainly hopeful, they do their best to make FB accessible to all
users and not just to a set of users such as screen reader users. I think,
since now, there is a good team in place, it would be good to send the
feedback on their way.

Best wishes,
-Vasu

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Payne,Susan N (DARS) <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I just did a few quick checks and found some problems.
>
> Clicking through to our agency's page without being logged into my account
> launched a pop-up window asking me to sign in or register. Using the
> keyboard only, I was unable to bring focus to that window so couldn't close
> it or enter anything. The focus remained on the FB page I was trying to get
> to and I could see myself tabbing through fields and links but most of the
> page was blocked from view by that pop-up.
>
> On the page itself every status had the name of our agency (being the
> poster of the status) as an H5. If I was trying to navigate via headings in
> a screen reader, hearing "DARS-Texas Department of Assistive and
> Rehabilitative Services" 33 times would not be helpful.
>
> The font size could not be enlarged via browser settings and the color
> contrast ratio was insufficient in several spots.
>
> Susan Payne
> Accessibility Specialist
> DARS - Center for Policy and External Relations
> <EMAIL REMOVED> 512-377-0366
>
>