Facebook is a popular social networking tool that allows users to create a personal profile, add other users as friends, exchange messages, and share information and media. Facebook also allows members to participate in interest groups, follow particular organisations and play simple online games.
Following the launch of auto-playing video advertisements, new captioning features are being introduced to increase user engagement. These new features by default make advertisements more accessible to users that have a disability.
As outlined in a recent Facebook Accessibility post, the new VoiceOver gestures are available for the Delete, Mute and More actions in the latest version of Facebook’s Messenger app (version 13) for iOS8 only.
The announcement comes from Facebook Accessibility’s August 2014 update, providing a complete guide to adding and viewing captions on user-uploaded video files.
Facebook’s steps to provide captions on videos are outlined below:
You can add captions to a video by uploading a SubRip (.srt) file that is saved using the following format:
filename.en_US.srt
To add captions to a video as you upload it:
Quite some time ago I just gave up on Facebook. Being blind it was just too hard to deal with, navigation was awful, there were parts of the iPhone app I just couldn't use. I deleted my account and left.
Since that time, Facebook has been working on accessibility. The nightmarish navigation shown in the Access iQ video is gone, and the iOS app has undergone some major changes.
