Facebook<\/p>\n
I have resisted joining Facebook\u00ae for several years. It seems to me to be a precarious social life, a venue for singles to cruise for hits, and predators to hunt on the innocent. Plus, I\u2019d been told that there are so many visuals, my screen reader wouldn\u2019t do a good job of accessing the information. I thought they had a point, but I\u2019m not the type to sit down and let life pass me by.
\n My husband and 12-year old son set up a Facebook\u00ae account for me, inserted my photo posed with my 3-month old grandson, and said I had no friends. Thanks a lot!
\n My son talked me through signing into my Facebook\u00ae page and left the room. Eventually, after many hours of using the up and down arrow, the \u201ctab\u201d to navigate each screen, and listening for something intelligible, I started to get the hang of it\u2026or so I thought.
\n When my husband came in and asked how I was doing, I snagged him to tell me what was on the screen that JAWS wouldn\u2019t read. He explained that it repeats the name twice, because once is the name of the person and the second is the label under the person\u2019s picture. He explained the difference of \u201cchat\u201d, \u201cmessage\u201d, and \u201cwall\u201d as best he could. What neither of us could figure out were all the code notations found between the brackets. We decided that our CA computer whiz kid was the only one who could decipher the codes and that they weren\u2019t something we needed to know to function at the superficial level we were on.
\n I\u2019ve never been one to enjoy small chit-chat, so I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ll continue participating on Facebook\u00ae, but I\u2019m enjoying the challenge of learning something new\u2026even if I still don\u2019t have any friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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