[gui-talk] AFB Access World and Facebook

[Joel Deutsch]

a little belatedly, and with no intention to devalue Albert's generosity in 
posting this article, I'd like to register one disappointment with the 
article itself. now, I know that someone has said that the article's a bit 
out of date in some way or other, and that Facebook's design has moved on 
during the intervening months.

Okay. I have no way to know just in which ways the article's explanations 
may be outdated. But one thing I have to say is that the fact that it 
explains everything from the perspective of a Window eyes user makes its 
explanations  almost an unsought extra burden on my poor mind as I try to 
figure out this pretty complicated Web site and service, hoping at least to 
use it in a minimal way. If only the article talked about navigating the 
site and its functions using jaws, I'd already have absorbed some new sense 
of how to get around it after the one reading I did yesterday or whenever it 
was that Albert posted it. But as it was, nothing stayed with me, and 
Lloyd's informative suggestions and this article still sit in my Inbox, 
waiting for me to have the time and enough mental power of concentration to 
read them all over again and try to apply something I learn to using 
Facebook, just one step at a time, as the article recommends. This is just 
pretty discouraging, even though I hesitate to give up too easily.

That's all. just had to vent about it. I know there are a lot of Window Eyes 
folks on this list, and I don't begrudge them their choice of screen reader. 
But I don't know anything about WE and I can't just translate the screen 
reader comments into Jaws ideas as I go. it's just too much to deal with.

Hoping to pick myself up and try again, of course. What's life without a 
little challenge?
Joel