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Sorry for the pun. I'm really not interested Jeff's status who posted eight hours ago, shared with friends, god I want a drink of water. For some reason this is really annoying to me. Also on the mac anyway they broke how you mention people. When I asked them before, I had said if you mention @Jen, and you have one Jen, it works just fine, the Mac speaks it. However, if you have more then one person by the same name, it's not read when you're trying to select the right person. Now when you mention someone, you don't hear anything when you pusht he space bar. Like if i mention Jen smith, and she was the first selection, when you pressed tab it would say smith as you hit space. yes, toonhead accessibility does try to get back to you. Those are my inital thoughts of facebook. sorry for the Mac tangent but it's also relivent as I use the main site exclusively. Oh, one more theng: has anyone noticed voice over say clear? I can't explain where it is, but it will say clear, and you can't do anything to it. You can't double tap it or anything.

I did an mp3 file showing all the thing s that work and down't work in the app starting with the things that don't work. I'll email it to them and we'll see what happens.

good luck.

Why is it when you update your fb status it doesn't say "sent from IOS" at the end except when you update your status through Siri?

Hello, For the individual who is asking about the "sent via IOS" feature. The reason that FB status is read sent via IOS, is because individuals are only using siri to post their status. If you do not see, or hear, the "sent via IOS" on an individuals status, it is because they used the FB app, or another app, which does not use SIRI to send the status. This is the difference. We no longer have the FB and Twitter widgets in the notification center anymore either and this was always done with the "sent via IOS" tag as well. HTH -Andrew-

While I do agree some stuff has been fixed, some stuff is still broken. here is what I mean.

I'll have to as I stated in another comment try the iOS thing as I did not think you could update your status on fb via siri. Hmm. I love learning things.

Hi all,
I just started using the Facebook IOS app today (before I used the mobile website). I have a few problems and I'm not sure if it's me or if it's accessibility issues. Please could someone let me know:
1. I often get thrown back to the top of the page while browsing my News Feed. I think this is an accessibility issue, as is the fact that Facebook doesn't always read the name of a person in News Feed, and I have to swipe back and forth for it to repeat.
2. A really important problem is that I don't seem to be able to view comments from my News Feed. Facebook says "2 likes, 2 comments". If I want to read those comments what do I do?? Dubble tapping with one finger just makes VO say "selected". Now, what does that mean? Tapping with two fingers doesn't seem to work either. Or I get taken to a page where I can block the person, which is cool, but I just wanted to read the comments!
3. How do I open a link that someone shares in News Feed?
These are rather big issues for me, I hope someone can help, thanks!
Katrine

See this link and this link for more info as these explain all about the facebook app and how to do stuff on it. I also go over issues that need to be addressed in the second podcast. I emailed that file directly to the facewbook accessibility team about a month and a half ago.

I hoep all of this helps.

I'mSorry that I cannot be of more help currently, but I noticed this aspect too! Imore.com has an article posted that tells you how to change this, hop on over to their website and check it out. I would post the link, but I'm not in a position to do this currently. -Andrew-

VoiceOver users will find that double-tapping on the "Feeds" heading will expand the list of available feeds. From there, one can just double-tap on a feed and everything works as expected.

Hi Callum,

Are you trying to access the different feeds under the "More" tab at the bottom right corner of the screen? That's where you want to go. In the "More" tab, swipe down until you get to the "Feeds" heading and double-tap. While oiceOver gives no indication that the feed list was expanded, it does expand.

In regards to whether a restore of your phone would help with this issue...the short answer is, "Probably not." In any event, it isn't anything I would recommend as a solution to this particular problem.

I'd be patient. It is a slightly tedious process now but there is some logic to it. Still, enough users may complain with this one since people liked the convenience of changing the feed on the main news feed tab.

I believe that's in more hen friends where it has been. At the bottom if I remember correctly after you tap friends at the bottom is the search field.

Good luck

Go to the More tab on the bottom of the App. Scroll all the way down to Settings, then go to Notifications. Under that, go to Push Notifications. Towards the bottom are the different app notifications. Uncheck the ones you don't want.

Hello Misty,

To find alternative feeds, such as the Most Recent feed, do the following:
1. Open the Facebook app.
2. At the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, double-tap on the "More" button.
3. Flick through the list until you hear "Feeds Heading." Note: It is quite a way down the list.
4. It appears as though in Facebook 11.0 the Most Recent feed item is automatically displayed if you flick past the "Feeds" heading. If you wish to view other feeds, such as Close Friends, double-tap on the feeds heading.

Yeah it still is and frankly for e it's a bit more streamlined. I personally don't mind it at all. give it a chance instead of not giving it a chance. and yes that is how the sighted do get to the most recent as well.

do this in notifications under facebook settings. there soudl be one for pages.

Good luck.

This really baffles me in how they do version numbers. This is like the second or third time they have jump a whole number on the version with very minor update to the app. How strange.

What's New in Version 12.0

• Improvements for reliability and speed

I have just done an update which I presume came out today. When I went into the notifications tab there was repetition of my notifications. IE. it said each new notification twice as I swiped right through the list. I have reported this to Facebook.

For those who haven't updated to Facebook version 22.0 yet, reports from Twitter and other sources indicate that this latest version has introduced an issue in the News Feed area where users' names are spoken twice before the story is read.

Thanks Michael for reporting this. I can confirm the bug here too. So how can we let the Facebook accessibility team know about this bug? Yeah, I know what you mean Usman. I use to look forward to learning the what's new log and they say they will highlight what's new in the app. Well then the question becomes: how can we access the what's new if it is as they say present in the app? Just my thoughts.

I don't know what the address is, but you might consider looking for that. I haven't noticed this bug. Also, you used to be able to go to facebook.com/accessibility and be able to find the link there.

Not sure if I'm the only one who's had this, but when swiping through my news feed, voiceover continuously announces "network error". Has anyone else seen this?

According to the monthly update provided by the Facebook Accessibility Team, these are the changes made to their iOS apps during January:

“We improved accessibility of the photo/video edit screens, photo editing tools and sharing photo status updates in the Instagram iOS app. We improved the read back of tab buttons such as “Photos”, “People”, the “News” tab and the main feed and the “Suggestions for you” headers in the Instagram app. We improved the accessibility of the read more popover button in the audience picker, the edit cover photo flow and the privacy explanation screens in our iOS app. We improved the tagging experience and the associated Done and Cancel buttons in the Instagram app. We added a label to the expand(…) button the Pages app. We improved the swipe interaction of tagging people in status updates in our iOS app. We fixed a recent regression where names were announced twice in news stories in our iOS app.”

With Facebook no longer providing release notes with updates, I thought that this was useful to know.

The complete post is at: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-accessibility/january-2015-month...

Has anyone been able, when making an FB post, to select the "Custom" option and to exclude and/or include individual people from your Friends list? I can't seem to figure out how to do this. Could someone help, please, if you've been able to figure it out?