[ALUG] Facebook

[John Woodard]

On 08/07/07, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:
> Wayne Stallwood <ALUGlist at digimatic.co.uk> wrote:
> > I somehow joined Facebook ages ago without actually remembering [...]
> > Worse than that the whole add friends dialogue actually excludes those
> > with poor vision who are unable to read the security check image (hey I
> > have 20-20 vision and I struggle enough), where is the button to read
> > out the characters ? (plenty of other sites manage it)
>
> I routinely fail those eye tests a few times, so it sounds like I
> won't be on Facebook in the near future then!  By the way, don't be
> fooled by Google's Blogger service: its eye-test may have a "read it
> out" link, but that often returns 404 Not Found for me.
>
> As Planet ALUG readers will know, I've recently joined LinkedIn and
> been fairly impressed with how easy it is to use, if a little slow.
> I'll write more on the web as I get further with it, I expect.  I'm
> also on SoFlow, which can be interesting in its forums, but hasn't
> done much for me so far and has a few accessibility problems.
>
> I've been on the Norfolk e-club for a while too.  That one has done
> absolutely *nothing* for me and occasionally sends me vague alert
> emails which are too vague to make me actually look at the site.  Now
> I've moved, I should probably kill that membership.


Facebook steadfastly refuses to accept my email address saying that it
is not a valid address. Well it works for the alug list and every
other site I've needed to use it for. Quite why mail at mydomain.co.uk
isn't valid escapes me so I'll confine it to to my room 101 with my
yahoo account and various other badly programed crap.

Cheers,
BJ