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Don't despair Misty Dawn. FB is giving it their best. are you on IOS 8.3?

I heard theya re fixing it, but we'll see when that happens. It sometimes take sthem 2 months to fi a simple button which to me is not acceptable. Keep reporting them the issue every update.

As a beta tester and programmer I can say that I disagree with your statement.

I coded soemthign that worked on my machienand about 5 or 6 othrs. All of us were using different cinfigs. so I released what ever it was to the public and it all broke and got shot to hades. Accessibility was broken, yet it still worked on our machines so think about that next time.

Hello lovely people,

As I've noticed for a few days, I can see many of the third party clients stopped working with posting/viewing/editing the statuses. Will it going to be this way further? Or are we going to get them all back for the third party clients like earlier after a certain period of time?

Any news about it? kindly update me please.

Raaj.

I seem to have the same issue with my Facebook app as well. I'm running iOS 8.3 and the latest update to Facebook. When scrolling through my status's the app seems to freeze for a split second then tries to rapidly catch up to where I should be.

The dot product is Apple's fault not facebook's for what it is.

VO did not recognize this character, now it does.
Facebook uses it for some reazon. While it's not cool listenning to it, the screen reader should provide a dictionary where the pronunciation rules might be configured in a per application schemma.
No developper can be forced to do something only because tghe screen reader behaves in a way. If the character is being recognized which I supose is good and it is not been spoken properly by the screen reader in a given application is something to be addressed by the screen reader developper, Apple in this case.
More important are two other questions, if external clients are or will be allowed by FB and if notifications are again fixed.

Have an iPhone 5 with iOS 8.3 and it looks like you can now accessibly view Notifications.

All I had to do was "two-finger double-tap to interact"! (Yes, it actually worked this time and revealed all my notifications!)

Well, I still have an iPhone 5, so not sure if that makes a difference. What is annoying for me is that it's one extra step. I don't understand why FB couldn't just show us our notifications like we used to have them instead of having to "two-finger double-tap to interact" every time we bring up the notifications screen before we can view them.

I'm a little embarrassed that I only just decided to try to wade into the accessibility mess and join facebook. Way to be ten years behind the curve I guess... That said, I see that most of my issues have been mentioned here, but I'm having one major one that I didn't find help on so far.

When attempting to update my profile and add workplaces or other such info the popup menus are automatically closing on me as soon as I open them. I'll start typing a business, tap on the name to bring up matches, hear the chime that indicates a menu has opened, and then touching the screen anywhere in any fashion closes it again. It's making me a lil' crazy.

Am I just doing something wrong or did I set something wrong with VO? Any help would be fantastic.

If it's of any use, the date-pickers etc don't give me any trouble, just that one object type.

Is anyone else having a problem now where you can't view posts on your profile and all it says is "friends" plus a number and "photos" plus a number?

Any workarounds to this?

If other folks are having the issue, has anyone contacted Facebook about this?

After the past two or three updates to the facebook app, I've noticed that when posting a status update, the area where you can pick an activity is no longer usable with voiceover. After writing what you want the status update to say, double tap on say what you are doing. The catigories such as feeling, eating, and drinking to name a few come up as they always have. After selecting one of these catigories, voiceover just reads the list again, instead of the choices in the selected catigory. Does anybody know how this can be fixed, or know of any workarounds

Has anyone else had an experience both on the app and on the Facebook website where they ask you to do something visual such as a CAPTCHA or identifying pictures to check to make sure you are who you say you are? I've gotten this twice already today and there seems to be no audio equivalent!

If this is true, I think we all need to write Facebook's supposed accessibility team to let them know that they are discriminating against blind people by not providing an audio equivalent to their security checks.

Has anyone else experienced this app not wanting to update to the latest version?

My App Store keeps saying I have one item available and, when I click "Updates" and try updating Facebook, which is the one item shown as needing to update, the "Update" button just dims briefly and then goes back to the regular "Update" button.

I've tried hitting "update All" and the same thing happens with Facebook.

Has anyone else been experiencing this? If so, is ther a workaround?

I keep getting lock screen notifications of a pending poke. I have a few friends I used to have poke wars with, and I would like to poke whoever this is back.

However, I cannot find anyway to figure out who it is, let alone poke someone.

Does anyone have a clue as to how pokes work with the iOS app?
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I don't find a poke section in notifications. Where is it?

If I could find it, I would have by now. I have looked. I must be missing something, or they moved it to some obscure location.

I don't see anything about pokes in my notification list, despite being nagged by the app that i have outstanding pokes. I will try uninstalling and reinstalling.

It's not that big of a deal, just a little frustrating.

Friends search still doesn't work correctly. All we see are "add friend" buttons and no links to profiles. Major problem.

Also, I think many would appreciate it if Facebook would do a little typing and put the "What's New" section to use...

Hi all,

So now it seems I cannot post. With the latest version of Facebook I see there is what appears to be a mandatory audience selector when you post. So after updating your status you select the 'next' button and are presented with a screen to choose your audience. This has a 'choose friends' option and then a list of all the groups you are subscribed to. There's no option to select all friends, and the only way out of the audience selector seems to take you back into the previous screen. There doesn't seem to be an option to post without goingng into the audience selector either.can anyone help here? I have my default selection set in privacy settings to 'friends', why doesn't it go with that anymore? Do I have to select all my friends individually using this audience selector now? any assistance would be greatly appreciated because I just don't see how to post anything at the moment.

So, as Bingo Little pointed out above, the latest surprise is that the post button in the new audience selector is not picked up by VoiceOver. I've been doing a bit of playing around and have found a bit of a workaround for this issue, but it is quite complicated and requires a bit of trial and error.

1. Type your status and double-tap on the next button.
2. When the audience selector comes up, move your finger to the right of the "Select audience" heading, so your finger should now be just below the battery indicator. Turn off VoiceOver, doing your best to keep your finger in the same position, and do a single tap.
3. After tapping to the right of the "select audience" heading, turn VoiceOver on and perform a four finger tap towards the bottom of the screen, to take you to the last element on the screen. There should now be an unlabelled button, which will simply be read as "button". This is the post button. Double-tap this and your status should post as normal.
4. If you hear a "more" button rather than an unlabelled button, repeat step 2 a few times, trying your best to keep your finger on the very top right of the screen, just below the battery indicator..

Quite complicated, but it does work for me. I will tweet the accessibility team a link to this thread so they're aware of the issue.

Maya - yep, the issue you mentioned has been around for a while. I understand you trying to fix it by resetting the phone with the home and power button and by reinstalling the app, however restoring the phone back to factory settings and setting it up as new is unlikely to fix issues like this. If it was a pre-installed app from Apple, such as Mail, Calendar, Messages etc then maybe, but these are third party apps and an issue as specific as this is unlikely to be fixed with a restore. Just wanted to save you some time in the future :)

Ugh. al these issues really are making me want to just uninstall the app. Even reporting the problems to he accessibility team hasn't worked. Good lord.

You have to mark your friend as a close friend to see notifications of posts from them. Do this by going to their fb page then hit friends then edit friend lists and select close friends then hit the done button.

OK I've tried the work-around suggestion. it may be that I'm just not as good at implementing it but it doesn't work at all consistently with me. Sometimes, for example, my posts go to groups rather than to my friends as a whole. The latest update to Facebook (2nd june 2017 I think) has not fixed the problem. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and nothing changes. This seems to be an issue that not everyone is experiencing, but I sure am experiencing it! If anyone has worked out any other solution do please let me know. I am having to use Siri or SMS to update my status on the go at present.

The fact that some people are having this problem and others are not is very strange. For those that are, there are a few other workarounds as well as the one I posted the other day.

If you are using a device that supports 3D touch, performing a 3D touch on the Facebook app and then clicking "Write post" seems to bring up the old posting screen, with the normal post button instead of the next button. Don't ask me why this works, but it does, at least for me anyway.

Another option is to use Siri, providing you're logged into Facebook on iOS itself, which I think happens automatically when you log into the Facebook app, you can say "Post to Facebook" and Siri should ask you what you want to write.

And finally, another thing you can do is go into the notes app on iOS, create a new note and in the text field, simply place a space or new line, so that the note is blank. Next, click "Share note" and then Facebook. You will then see the iOS sharing screen where you can type your status, check in, tag friends etc, then click post when you're done. From what I can tell, although I have no vision at all so I could be missing something, this does not actually share anything from the notes app.

I know it shouldn't be as complicated as this, and hopefully it will be fixed in the next update.

If I select Settings under the Navigation tab and then select the Account Settings option I am receiving a blank screen with Voiceover except for the Back button at the top and the tabs at the bottom.

Is anyone else experiencing this? I’m on an iPhone 7 Plus using the latest iOS.