Facebook

Reviewed on:
11/2/2009

Name of the website:
Facebook

URL address of the website:
http://www.facebook.com/

Tell us what the website is used for?
social networking

What screen reader did you test it with?
JAWS for Windows

What worked well on the site?
working with your profile worked find. confirming friends, adding friends and the audio capcha.

What did NOT work well on the site?
many of the applets did not work well and it is difficult to even check messages

Tell us about the accessibility of the site:
The best accessibility tool for this site seems to be the alternate site for mobile use. They do use standard cotrols like check boxes and such. However, on the regular facebook page it is very difficult to find what you are looking for. Even using the Jaws find command does not always work.

Yahoo

Reviewed on:
11/2/2009

Name of the website:
Yahoo

URL address of the website:
http://www.yahoo.com

Tell us what the website is used for?
chatting, email, searching, news, etc.

What screen reader did you test it with?
JAWS for Windows

What worked well on the site?
The chat client worked well when the page refresh for the site was turned on.

What did NOT work well on the site?
The continual page refresh but they provide an option for screen readers to turn the page refresh off when they are not working in a chat window.

Tell us about the accessibility of the site:
Overall, yahoo is a very busy site. However, I had little problem navigating and finding what I wanted. I did have some difficulty getting the email to refresh when the automatic page update feature was turned off. I also had problems with the application mode feature. When I would turn the application mode feature off it took a very long time for JAWS to go back to using the PC cursor and not forms mode. This caused me to press enter on links when I thought I was just turning forms mode off.