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From: Vy Pham
Date: Fri, Jul 19 2013 10:10AM
Subject: Facebook accessibility
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I was helping a
friend of mine, who lives outside of US to create a Facebook account.
My friend was able to login to the account that I created for a couple
of days. I think since I created this account from the US. The
Facebook system recognized this account as suspicious. Now enable for
my friend to be able to log back in to the Facebook. He has to go
through some secure verifications. The first part is to pass the
CAPCHA of which can be done pretty easily by using Webvisum and
Firefox. The next part is actually a real challange. He has to
identify the pictures of some friends that he had added on his
Facebook in the last
couple of days. Of course since both of us are blind, there is no way
for us to complete this task. I did e-mail somebody in the
Facebook Accessibility Team. The person replied back asking for my
friend's user name so they could unblock the account. I e-mailed them
back with the info. Since then, I have not heard back from anybody
from Facebook. Someone suggested that I should try to post the
question on the Accessibility Page for Facebook. I did try to post to
their wall, after clicking on the post button, I got a message saying
"The page could not be found".
Do you have any ideas how I might be able to solve this problem?
Can something be done to get Face to improve the accessibility? I just
learned today that some other of my friends are experiencing the same
issue.

From: ckrugman@sbcglobal.net
Date: Mon, Jul 22 2013 2:59AM
Subject: Re: Facebook accessibility
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As usual I'm cleaning up files and Facebook even several months after this
post still has a long way to go toward accessibility even for screen reader
users. Personally, I can't speak for other issues but the layout is
confusing and labeling of content still leaves much to be desired. This is
just for basic use as I haven't been willing to spend much time dealing with
what I consider to be the silliness of Facebook. it is still very
disappointing.
Chuck
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From: "Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E]" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Facebook accessibility


> Accessible to who (whom?)? Is it for the real-life diversity of
> disabilities, functional limitations and assistive technologies? Or, just
> to screen readers and persons with sight impairments, which is the usual
> reality for most "accessibility" efforts?
> > From: Len Burns [ = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 01:40 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Facebook accessibility
>
> I applaud the direction, and deeply hope that it becomes their standard
> practice. Historically it has been three steps forward and two back
> with FB. For now I will hold to the belief that this time will be
> different.
>
> -Len
>
> On 10/30/2012 8:13 AM, Bourne, Sarah (ITD) wrote:
>> While I was on Twitter yesterday (OK, I was obsessively following storm
>> reports. I'm better now.) James Teh, screen reader user and so-lead
>> developer of NVDA, sent out a tweet that took me completely by surprise:
>> "Oh wow! The main Facebook site became accessible! I am quite impressed."
>>
>> Wow, indeed. A few friends have confirmed that Facebook has made
>> significant improvements. There are still some snags here and there, but
>> apparently more annoyances than barriers. Another friend mentioned that
>> he has found the (new-ish) accessibility team to be very responsive to
>> problem reports.
>>
>> You can report issues specific to accessibility and assistive technology
>> at https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/?id9372943117927
>>
>> Sb
>>
>> Sarah E. Bourne
>> Director of Assistive Technology &
>> Mass.Gov Chief Technology Strategist
>> Information Technology Division
>> Commonwealth of Massachusetts
>> 1 Ashburton Pl. rm 1601 Boston MA 02108
>> 617-626-4502
>> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = <mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
>> http://www.mass.gov/itd
>>
>> >> >> >>
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> > >