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Social networking? Tell us about it...
- 10 Sep 07, 11:57 AM
Do you use social networking websites such as or to keep in touch and meet new friends? Would you like to, but find you can鈥檛? Then , the charity that helps people with accessibility requirements to get up and running with computers and the internet, want to hear from you.
Whatever your experiences with social networking websites, good or bad, AbilityNet want to hear about them.
To make it simple for you to tell them your thoughts, AbilityNet have added a to their website for you to fill in.They are especially keen on hearing from people who would like to participate in user testing or video interviews who live in the Greater London area.
Katherine Moonan, Senior Accessibility and Usability Consultant for AbilityNet says that, 鈥渋t鈥檚 great that a lot of practical websites are inclusive, so everyone can check their bank balances, for example. But what about the fun stuff on the web? That鈥檚 what we want to find out about.鈥
If you find yourself wondering about what kind of accessibility barriers can be found on social networking websites before tackling the AbilityNet questionnaire, then you may want to check out this .
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Many thanks for this.
We're really excited about this project and looking forward to hearing people's views.
We hope we can encourage social networking websites to provide great services for web users with disabilities.
Best Wishes,
Kath
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Having come across this blog I thought I might just have a look around source code of the Facebook sign up page and see what I could spot.
I do see some attention given to web site accessibility, but in the few minutes I spent I did see a few fundamentals missing such as missing title attributes on hyperlinks, a tabular structure with no summary explanations of what the tables are doing.
I didn't run the page through the WAI validator or check whether the Javascript caters for both mouse and keyboard users, but I did notice that the you can't sign up without Javasript switched on, which isn't a massive help.
I expected better to be honest - the whole ethos of social networking is inclusivity, and if we have to resort to niche sites specialising in accessibility that's fine, but without the big players addressing fundamental web site accessibility as well then we risk the ghettoisation of social networking which can't be a good thing
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