Voiceover and Facebook

I am back again. Tonight I want to talk about voiceover and Facebook. It is worth mentioning that I was never able to use regular Facebook until my MAC computer. Before it I used the Facebook mobile website. Mobile sites worked very well on my PC, so I would use them. What mobile sites do, is that all the pictures and difficult things to navigate are taken out. The website is just stripped down to just text which makes it easier to navigate.

So I was very excited to use the real Facebook and not just the mobile site. I just figured this out on my own. I wanted to comment back to someone who commented on one of my posts. All that has to be done is you need to type in the edit box and then hit the enter button. Yes it really is that simple. There are pop-up boxes for friend requests, messages, and notifications. Next to each one of them there is a number of how many of them one has. To click on the one you need, just go over it and press the voiceover (VO) keys and the space bar to select it.

I have not done anything with the friend requests, because I do not get many of them. When I do, I usually take care of it on my iPhone.

As for the messages, you need to to select send new message if that is what you want to do. You will need to type the person's full name and depending on if there is more than one person with that first name, you will have to type the first letter of their last name. If you want to send it to multiple people, just separate each name with a comma, no spaces. Once people are typed in hit the enter key. Type in the edit box the message and then press the send button by pressing the VO keys and the space bar. To read a message, select who sent it to you and click on their name by hitting the VO keys and the space bar. Unfortunately messages cannot be deleted from regular Facebook. Well there is a way, but I do not know how to do it.

Notifications are the easiest to navigate. You just need to click on notifications and then scroll to the notification that is wanted and click on it. It will tell you if the notification is read and if you want to turn off notifications from a certain group or a certain app.

I hope this helps some what. I will type more next week. Till then.