Facebook Messenger
Description of App
Facebook Messenger is a faster way to send mobile messages to friends. With Messenger, you can send and receive messages with any of your friends around the world or anyone in your mobile contacts list.
Messenger lets you:
• Send messages instantly to other friends who have Messenger
• Chat with friends who are on Facebook
• Get free push notifications for incoming messages
• Add location and photos to messages
• Reach friends via text message if they don't have Messenger yet
• Access sent and received messages on both Messenger and Facebook
• Create group conversations for making plans on the go
• Add more friends to group conversations at any time
• Control alert and location settings for each conversation
Note: Sending to phone numbers is not available in all countries.
What's New in Version 1.5
• Support for iOS 5
• Ability to see who's online and who's mobile
• Ability to see when the other person is typing
• A faster way to compose new messages to the people you message most
• Various performance improvements
• Support for 12 additional languages
Version
Free or Paid
Compatibility
Device(s) App Was Tested On
Accessibility Comments
Encountered accessibility problems. See below in the additional comment.
VoiceOver Performance
Button Labelling
Usability
Other Comments
Unfortunetly, this app use to work great and had no problem what so ever. Now that they have released 1.5. It has completely done a 180 on me. I am using this app on the IOS 5.x and found it so complicated and I can't recommend this app anymore. Now I can say this has not been tested on IOS 4.x and I do not know if the results are the same or not. It is quite possible if you are really gung ho about it and don't mind that most functionality does not work might be able to live with it. As for the general blind users this is no longer usable. There are to many problems and just making this work simply isn't possible. I no longer recommend this app. I will keep this up to date as soon as the IOS 5.x and newer release of this app comes out.
Comments
#1 for america users only?
hey I'm from hong kong. and the I tuens store told me that it's for america only.
#2 America only
Hello all.
This app appears to be only available in America. When I clicked on the link for the app in the iTunes store, I was told that it is not available in the UK store but I have the option of changing to the US store. Well what is the point when I live in the UK?
Anyway I am subscribed to this post. So will watch any developments on the app.
Just a little disappointed that was all. But there you go. I hope the app comes to the UK store very soon.
Chat soon.
#3 Viewing Messages
How does one go about viewing messages in this app? I can see the message history and if I click on the person's name it shows me the "details" of the message...but I can't figure out how to view the message itself.
#4 Detail Message
Micheal, that is a great question. Well, on that first page where you see all the messages going on right? Double click on one of those message. This page appears that you can only write back to that person. Really, at the top of that page you will see your name and the person your messages are bing sent to, right? If you want to see their messages in details just couble click on their name on this page. It will now go in to a new page where the messages are in full. Now you should be able to see the entire message without being clipped like on the first page. Hope this works for you. Let me know if you still can't find it. It's not a button nor a link by Voice Over. A flaw in the app by the developer to let you know you can click there. By the way you can double click your name for the same result.