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Our Automatic Alt Text (AAT) tool takes a giant leap forward today, offering image descriptions with more depth and detail. The number of objects & concepts AAT can recognize jumps to over 1200, a 10x increase since the feature was introduced.
#AAT
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We're currently debugging the Facebook iOS App VoiceOver crash issue affecting News Feed scrolling. We'll keep you all updated once we have more information on the fix and when to expect it. Thank you for your patience.
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Facebook iOS App version 252 is rolling out to the app store and should be available for everyone over the next couple of days. This update fixes the VoiceOver crash when scrolling the News Feed. Thank you for your patience.
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We have a fix in the works for the Facebook iOS App VoiceOver crash when scrolling the News Feed. Once the new version has been approved and is available in the app store we'll post another update. Thank you for your patience as we work to resolve this issue.
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The bug in Messenger affecting VoiceOver is now fixed and should go out in the next update (version 175) pending Apple’s sign off. This may take some time to reach all devices. Thank you for your patience as this rolls out to everyone and apologies for the inconvenience.
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Last week there was a bug impacting how VoiceOver read text posts with a background image/color. These posts were read as “awesome-text-background.” We’ve deployed a fix which may take time to reach all devices. Thank you all for your patience and bringing this to our attention.
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We're excited to announce the new keyboard Navigation Assistant. Check it out!
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Our team is hiring for another Accessibility Program Manager, come work with us!
#accessibility
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Today's the day! Excited to launch Auto Alt Text in English on iOS with more platforms and languages to come.
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In honor of International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we hosted an
#accessibility
bug bashing session!
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Faster and easier Facebook News Feed reading coming to Android screen reader users:
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It's Global
#Accessibility
Awareness Day! Today we're announcing that automatic alt text is now available globally in English!
#GAAD
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Facebook and our peers at Teach Access are excited to announce a new web
#accessibility
tutorial for eng and design:
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We're very excited to announce that Automatic Alt Text is now available in 20+ languages. You can learn more here:
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Introducing our new series: Making Facebook Accessible -- Open-sourcing our approach to accessibility.
http://t.co/92JaJgeuOo
#accessibility
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We'll be at
#CSUN
next week giving three technical talks and participating in a Teach Access panel. Come say hello!
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We’re excited to announce that Page owners can now automatically generate captions for their videos! Learn more:
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Now you can add captions to the videos you upload to Facebook. Let’s make home videos more accessible! More details:
http://t.co/gXDvkoVfQE
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Check out this community that came together on Facebook to make dance accessible to all:
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Check out how
@RNIB
, the Royal Institute of Blind People, is using Workplace by Facebook.
#accessibility
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We're hiring for an
#iOS
#Accessibility
Engineer. Come help us connect everyone in the world!
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It's an honor. Thank you so much!
Congrats again to
#HKAA18
recipients;
@fbaccess
@Microsoft
for their roles in creating accessible products or improving the
#a11y
of their already-popular products; &
@HabenGirma
, for her advocacy & dedication to creating equal opportunities for
#PWD
.
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We're excited to announce our newest
#accessibility
team member, Jesse Beach! Check out her story here:
@jessebeach
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Are you an Android Developer? Check out our new open source
#Accessibility
Inspection tool for
#Android
:
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Facebook for iOS now supports VoiceOver rotor Actions to Like, Comment and More! Learn more here:
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Check out our spotlight on Marcelo Gomez Rivera and Android Accessibility:
#accessibility
#android
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Check out our
#Accessibility
Toolkit, a blueprint to help engineering teams embed accessibility into their workflows:
http://t.co/fF0TC4RqZM
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Shared links in News Feed should now be read back correctly by VoiceOver in Facebook for iOS v67, available today. Thanks for your patience!
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Today, our
#diversity
and
#accessibility
teams hosted a bug-bashing event in honor of
#IDPwD
:
http://t.co/7hGNDd7k4f
http://t.co/dqxBBB6Exz
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Facebook brings people together, one great example of this is Mommies with Guides. Learn more here: .
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The new Facebook app on iOS 9 now remembers VO focus in News Feed. If you go back to feed from a single story, you'll land where you started
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Our
#accessibility
team is hiring! We're looking for an AX web developer with a passion for connecting the world.
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Our
#accessibility
page hit 10,000 likes today! Thank you all for your continued support!
http://t.co/1ixww5jUqX
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We are excited to share our accessibility primer, HIKE, with all of you! Learn more at !
#accessibility
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We're excited to join our peers in tech, academia and advocacy on the Teaching Accessibility initiative.
http://t.co/nwUCrpRkol
@teachaccess
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#Voiceover
users on our
#iOS
app can now use the 2 finger double tap to like, comment or share from news feed
#a11y
http://t.co/dXnbTkBCJW
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First
#accessibility
monthly update of 2016 is up! Thanks for your continued feedback and support! Read on here:
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You can now Delete, Mute and access More Actions with VoiceOver in Facebook Messenger (Version 13, iOS8). Details:
http://t.co/Jc8EEmPCin
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Automatic Alt Text is now available on Facebook for Android (version 74+)!
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We're very excited to announce Dynamic Type (aka Larger Text) on Facebook for the iPhone and iPad! Learn more here:
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We had a blast hosting the Bay Area
#Accessibility
Meetup on Monday. Thanks everyone for coming out and participating! :)
@a11ybay
@Jennison
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Facebook will be at the
@AFB1921
Leadership Conference this week! We'll be talking about
@teachaccess
and desktop products. Come say hello!
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Our friends at Stanford University just posted a new
#accessibility
job opening. Check it out:
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Thanks for the useful feedback! Just for reference, this is the link to report
#accessibility
issues with facebook:
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Jeff Wieland speaks on web
#a11y
at the Norwegian Ministries Conference on Accessible Information and Technology
http://t.co/D8SxlAA8TQ
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Our team is growing! Check out our Front End Engineer
http://t.co/6Z8jIGu7kj
and Accessibility Specialist
http://t.co/Rqhu22EXEp
positions.
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Looking for a summer or fall internship and passionate about accessibility? Come work with the Facebook AX Eng team!
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Here's the Facebook Accessibility update for May. Check it out!
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Here's the Facebook Accessibility update for April. Thanks for your continued feedback and support!:
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Check out the Spotlight on Brett Lavalla and mobile web accessibility at Facebook.
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We're honored that the Facebook for iOS app is now a part of Apple's "Popular Apps Using VoiceOver" collection!
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Here's the Facebook Accessibility monthly update for March. Our team is still hiring, come work with us!
http://t.co/sqGiFQJdpf
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For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we are excited to share Lisa’s story with all of you:
http://t.co/LRpvNbesfv!
#GAAD2015
#GAAD
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@APHfortheBlind
You can add descriptions by navigating to the image and clicking Edit Photo. Learn more here: . -KC
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We just posted a new position on our Accessibility Engineering team for an Android lead (
http://t.co/6RLnuxsFj0).
Come work with us!
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Our recent Facebook Engineering blog post on some of the interesting technical challenges we’re working on:
http://t.co/lXVt1R20DJ
#a11y
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@ted_drake
@turbotax
Thanks Ted & TurboTax! Great to have your support on
#accessibility
and
#ReactNative
. Keep the pull requests coming. :)
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We are excited to share that the latest Facebook Messenger iOS app now supports Dynamic Type, read more here:
http://t.co/J1UA46c5b6
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The News Feed sort menu in our iOS App on the iPad now works with
#voiceover
. Thanks for your patience.
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@joslee
@MSFTEnable
@NVAccess
@FreedomSci
We're working closely with Microsoft on UWP accessibility and our new Windows 10 app. Stay tuned!
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Here is our next post in our series, Making Facebook accessible: Building an accessible culture
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“Every day I use Facebook to break down stigma” says Jessie who uses a braille display & screen reader with Facebook.
http://t.co/SfCUYNaNS0
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We are working on a fix to the notifications VoiceOver read back issue on iOS. We apologize for the inconvenience. Stay tuned for details.
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We are excited to be organizing an internal
#accessibility
tech camp for
#gaad
this year!
http://t.co/jZkqkuoo11
cc:
@Jennison
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We were honored to be a part of Accessible Media Inc's Contact radio show on universal design. Check it out here:
http://t.co/XSZPk2np8r
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Thanks for including our HIKE tutorial in the WebAIM November Newsletter! We're honored!
@WebAIM
#accessibility
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