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Hi. the reason you only see 15 news feed stories is because that is the way the application has been designed. In other words, sighted people would only see the same thing. I've just tested this again with my iPhone 4s 32 gig, no, I'm still not impressed. There are no improvements for zoom users for one thing and voice over still doesn't read all buttons. The application hasn't crashed yet, I'll do some more testing but I'll still be reporting issues to the developers.

Hi. As a zoom user, I notice that the friends list is compiled as a graphical interface. In other words the friends are displayed as icons which is as you rightly point out terrible for voice over users. This is another issue for the developers. As for groups, avoid using this application for groups especially if you are a group administrator. I can't even see the graphical interface here because for some reason they've done it in a highlighted graphic font.

Hi. You got it in one. The friends list is a grid of icons and according to their website, this was done so as to fit the screen of the IOS device in question. It's terrible for voice over users. As for reporting issues to the developers, I'll go on any public record and say that these developers have been most uncooperative in the past, and I'm not expecting improvements to their attitude in the future.

This is very confusing so let me try to explain it a bit better. Let us say you want to see how many people like a status or one individual who does. If it says you and 4 others liked this do a one finger only double tap on the 4 others link. Now if you want to reply to each of the people who liked the status, do a one finger only double tap on the individual you want to reply too, then reply to them individually. Now hopefully this should display who the individuals are who liked the status. As for viewing comments, where it says view all 4 comments, do a one finger only double tap on the 4 comments link and hopefully, you will now see/hear each of the comments. Unfortunately, you have to do a one finger only double tap on the actual comment you want to reply too, and then reply to that comment. As for tagging your friends in the middle of posts, this cannot be done if you primarily use voice over, as the friends lists are displayed as icons in a grid format. As for sharing, the share button is not labelled in the version I am testing, so I don't think voice over users will be able to use this feature.

I absolutely love the improvements they've made with accessibility regarding facebook! My only problem is the sort button seems to not be there anymore, and it only shows a certain number of items in the news feed, and I don't see where we can see more posts.

What's New in Version 5.3 Post your photos to albums and enjoy a speedier app. • You can now choose an album when uploading photos • News feed loads more quickly • Completely rebuilt timeline opens faster on your iPhone

One or two improvements here I think. We now appear to have access to the Share button. When I checked, there were one or two posts I couldn't share, but that may be related to the post itself. For the most part, when you click into a post, there are now three buttons, Like, Comment and Share. I still have some posts where it says something like "John Smith shared a link" but doesn't give any more detail. And VO still won't read mutual friends on a friend's profile page. But overall it's pretty good. Now to decide if it's good enough, or if I want to roll back to v4.1 again.

The only thing I don't like is when you hit the left navigation button you are taking in to a friends list you cannot get out of unless you relaunch the app. Can someone please explain what this does? This button is after all the things with notifications, friend's and all of that stuff at the top. The links people share don't read and the photo sharing last I checked dod not read at all. you only got from your library, image, image, image, all buttons.

Sure I will try my best to help out. On the main page when you open up the Facebook app. You have that Show the Left Main Navigation button at the top right hand corner of the screen. If you double tap on that. It will slide open in what is the Chat page. These are the people you can select to chat with. To close this. All you need to do is go to the upper left hand corner where you will find that Show the Left Main Navigation once again. Double tap on that. This will close the page and bring you back to the main page of your timeline. The Shares in your Newsfeed is quite puzzling. Just about every photo shares that my friends have submitted are being read to me just fine. As one of those for example is that they just had a new baby. The Newsfeed has a caption that says such and such shared a photo with "He's finally here!". When I double tap on that photo share. It will then take me to a new page of the actual image and additional comments made by the person if he/she has written for the phto for more details. If they do not leave a caption or a description. It will only say that such and such shared a photo. No other else because of the no captioning. I believe that is what is happening? Not certain for your case. However, the Link Share. Yes, that is not being read on the actual Newsfeed. So I am not certain of what it contains without having to double tap on the actual Newsfeed to find out. Now, as for the last question regarding to the Photo Sharing. Yes, all images from your Camera Roll will only display as a button label Image. The strange part is that I've seen this in other apps that behaves the exact same way. If you look at DropBox for example it will display the same results as it does in Facebook. So I am wondering if this isn't an Apple IOS 6 issue rather than Facebook themselves? Other than that. I find it quite accessible. However, some still disagree with me on this. I really would like to know what else that I may be overlooking. I can help out if need of any assistant. Besides the Photo Sharing only showing the Images being labled as a Image button. I would love to hear about any other issues so I can report them to Facebook. I also recommend to anyone else to do the same for that matter. It appears that the iPhone is a lot more accessible than the iPad counterpart. This is only going to confuse people more. So the fragmentations of different devices behaving differently is starting to show more and more.

That works, how ever I found somethign very odd about that window that someone might want to take a look at. Here's theclip. Sorry. it's early morning here and I have not yet had any cafeen. lol! http://audioboo.fm/boos/1115764 Take care.

Hello Walei, I am using Facebook on my iPhone 4 on IOS 6.0.1 and have no problems in seeing the keyboard when creating a new status. What device and IOS are you using so other maybe to help you on your what device and IOS that you are on.

I have an iPhone 5 running iOS 6.0.1. When I restarted my phone the keyboard showed up again. I had tried it a couple more times before restarting and it never showed up. I turned Voiceover off and touched the screen where the keyboard should be and it was typing things. This leads me to believe that Voiceover did not recognize that the keyboard was there. Anyway, I'll let you guys know if I encounter this again.

Hello Larry, On the first question in how to sort your Newsfeed to see the Most Recent. This is how I go about doing this. Assuming you have just launched the Facebook. You should be on the main page of your Newsfeed. At the top left hand corner is the NavBarIconLauncher. Double tap on this. Now this page contains many options to pick from. At the top of this screen is your name. Flick to the right until you hear the Newsfeed being annouced. One more flick to the right gets you the SideBar Gear button. Double tap on this button. This will pop up the options of giving you two options to pick from. The first item is the Show Top Stories and the second is the Show Most Recent. Just double tap on the Show Most Recent. This will now take you back to the main page of your Newsfeed. The second question is that I'm not certain in what you mean exactly. So I will see if I can't reproduce in what you had said and see in what I can do. I don't generally have any gap missing at all. So I am baffled on this. HTH

Hi there, I think the gaps you are seeing are just Facebook's top stories. When my news feed is sorted by top stories, I see a lot of older posts that, for whatever reason, Facebook thinks are important. I don't think this is a bug--but rather a feature.

I used to be able to tap on the whoever and six others like this to see who the other six people were but can't anymore. Does anyone else know how to do this in latest version?

Hi all! It's the new guy from Norway! Anyway, I've read your previous posts about seeing likes on FB, but I just can't get it to work. The thing is that VO doesn't split the sentence up into the first persons who likes this and then the number of more people who likes it. It just reads the whole thing, so when I double-tap on it, it opens up the profile of the first person that's read. The wierd thing is that I was going to show my girlfriend that this don't work, and then it did work! But never before and sertainly never after have I gotten this to work... , But the one time it did work, the number after the persons names was a link, and I guess that's the way it actually should work... Hope this makes sence... PS: Love this site and I will be terrorising you guys with stupid questions a lot in the time to come! ;) Lol

Hi! I also sort my newsfeed by most resent, and usually then I get the stories for the last 30 minutes and then it jumps to storries from 4 - 5 hours back... I tried going back to Topstorries, and then I get stuff that happend for say 1 hour ago, but I don't get everything, obviously because I'm on topstorries. So I went back to most resent, and it's the same thing again. I notised that if i don't close the facebook-app for 2 hours, then it updates the feed correctly during that time, but once I close it and open it again some hours later, the gap is there.

I also get huge gaps in my newsfeed. I have it set to most recent. It will show me stories and then jump to stories from the previous day. Someone told me I had to leave the app open for about an hour. I hope I don't have to do that every time I want to check Facebook. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, I can't click on certain buttons such as like an status. Does anyone have any suggestions for that?

I don't know if this will always work, but I clicked on new stories and it seemed to be showing all of them. Don't know if that is a fix to the problem, but I hope so.

I still can't access the status button. Well, I can access it, but when I try to click on it it won't do anything. Has anyone else noticed this? It doesn't annoy me to bad because I can post via iOS, but still.

No I'm fine when it comes to the status button. I click it, make my post and click post. I asume you are up to date? I'm also having the gaps issue and I believe it's the same on the mobile site to.

Yep, I'm completely up to date with the app. I'm finding that when I click the status button, nothing happens.

It looks like you can actually click the status button. just flick away and back to it again. This is what I had to do and it worked fine. Hope this helps.

Hello Sammy, Now what I would be curious. What device and IOS are you running? Facebook is becoming very fragmented I'm afraid. We are seeing different devices will have a totally different experience. On my iPhone 4 with IOS 6.0.1 the Status button works with no issues. That goes for the same on my iPhone 5 with the IOS 6.0.2. No issues on there. I haven't tried this on the iTouch, iPad, nor the iPad Mini but I do know those are having issues and the problems persist more on those devices. More so on the iPad and the iPad Mini. Not so much on the iTouch. Now as people have notice. We are all experiencing that time gap. I don't have a clue nor do I have a solution for this gap problem.

hi all. a wile back someone posted a work around for new stories. it has been working for me so i will post again. first you should make sure your news feed is set to most resent. go to the first story and double tap and hold. wile you are holding the story drag your finger up to the top of the screen. this acts as a refresh botton you might have to do this more then once. hope this helps.

On my iPhone 5 I noticed that I can also do a tripple-finger scroll gesture when I'm on the top of the newsfeed-page to refresh the content. You just swipe down with three fingers as if you wasn't on the top yet, and it will refresh. Heven't seen it fixing the gaps yet, but I guess I'll have to do a little more testing before I can say that it definetly wont work...

Thanks for all your help guys. I will try all of your suggestions and get back to you. I have an iPhone for ass, and I think I'm running iOS 6.1.

It turns out the person who posted that I couldn't swipe to the status button was right. When I touch the status button, then click on it, It works. Thank you

I've noticed that if you click on the cancel button after the ad, it will show you more of your news feed. Don't know if this is a permanent fix, but it did help.

I actually don't notice any adds int he facebook app, but I'm locked out of my facebook for 7 days, again, but feel free to add me anyways at my facebook and if you have any questions ask me there as well. Take care and be blessed.

Does anyone know how to edit the friends lists in this version? Previously, I was able to click on the profile, the friend button, and chose the lists. Now, it only asks if I want to unfriend someone or not. This is extremely important to me so any help is opretiated.

My suggestion is that if you are running iOS6 or later, if you just want to post a status update, do it from the notifications center. That seems to me to be the best way to post anyway. Then you won't have to worry about whether or not there is a keyboard there. Of course, I don't think this works when you are trying to tag people in posts, but for simple status messages, this should be the best solution until the newest Facebook hiccup is dealt with.

Hi, One thing I've just noticed when typing a status, even though Vo won't read words as you're typing them or when you delete them, it will still read your status if you slide your finger slowly from the keyboard up to about the middle portion of the screen. It will also still read your list of friend results when tagging them. Status update with Fb 5.4

Hi Nanda. If you haven't synced your iPhone with your iTunes on your computer since you updated the app, then the old version should still be in your iTunes library. Therefore you can delete the app from the iPhone, then sync with iTunes. You will need to go to the Apps section of the phone on iTunes and tick the box for the facebook app. It'll then sync the old version back on to your phone. I personally keep an old facebook version 4 on my computer because the new ones are annoying me! HTH