Facebook

Well, a brand new major release by Facebook. We have all been ready for this. It has arrived! So, I can say it is better! The Newsfeed is much better! Move over VoiceBook! You have a new competition now. Just double tap on the newsfeed and you can read all comments very easy along with liking is easy and swift. There are still come quirks in it. I haven't really had the time to really dive in to it to get a really feeling on it yet. So I am curious what you all have found and what you don't and do like? For some odd reason I'm only seeing 15 past newsfeed and nothing pass this. Not sure if there is something I'm missing but again I just got this. There are still some things that isn't so hot but I will have to say it is a major step forward. The real question will they keep it that way? What's New in Version 5.0 We've rebuilt the app so it’s faster and easier to use. * Scrolling through news feed is faster than ever * New banner lets you tap to quickly see more stories – no need to refresh * Photos open fast and close with one downward swipe * Instant access to your notifications

The Newsfeeds, Messages, Notifications, Nearby Events have really improved. However, the Pages, Groups, Friends have not. Matter of fact when I go in to my friends I get nothing but clicks. So it doesn't annouce the Friend name. I'm a still bit confused on the News Story and what is being displayed in the Newsfeed. I'm not seeing everything. Now back in the Menu page I have the set of friends that I can select such as Family, Acquaintances, and most recent will show things I don't see in my Newsfeed. So any advice would be great on how the Newsfeed works?

That strangely labeled button at the top left is the back button, and that also functions as the button to take you back to the home screen, so to speak, where you can find your messages, news feed, friends, etc. Kepe in mind, the button text will change depending on where you are in the app, it might say nav arrow button, or launch button button. It's quirky, but sooooo much better than any previous efferts.

I'm really impressed by this version of the app. I figure I'll use it more now than I have in a while, since version 3.0. I love how your notifications tell you what the notification is instead of just the name of the person it's from, (again, like version 3). Besides not being able to browse the friends list and a few other smaller things, this app works just fine. The friends list should be fixed soon, hopefully. Someone should post the email to send messages about accessibility so we can try to speed up the process.

I thought that I would advise the following. using the current version of Facebook, I've been able to like, and comment with no issue at all. A friend has made a Facebook post all about the possible accessibility issues with the new app. This is able to be found by searching for the lonsdale media page on Facebook. It is a very good review, and worth a read.

yes friend slist is not readable in voice over. hope it can be fixed very soon.

Here are the initial bugs or undesirable features I've encountered in the News Feed section of the FB 5 App running on my non-JB ATT iPhone 4S with latest IOS release. I'm interested to hear if folks can verify these before I send the list off to the black hole of FB support. 1. The main menu button is predictably mislabeled as "NavBarIconLauncher." 2. Attempting to swipe right past the "Status" button bypasses the "Photo" and "Check In" buttons and goes directly to the first post in the news feed list. I can, however, locate and select these two buttons using the hunt and peck method. 3. Swiping right past the "Check In" button I find 3 elements: "New Stories," "Network Error," and a number that has varied between zero and 7. Double-tapping any of these three elements opens a standard status update entry screen. 4. Double-tapping the "Sort" button brings up the usual item chooser at the bottom of the screen; however, double-tapping or split-tapping either of the two choices does change the sort order but does not close the item chooser. It also caused the FB App to completely close several times while I was attempting to make a selection. 5. VO now seems to treat each news story as a single, combined entity that includes the Poster's name, the text of their post, and the Like and Comment buttons. While it's nice to hear this all read in one fell swoop, this means that if I simply want to "Like" a post I now need to double-tap the post to open it before I can like or comment. This is not how it works for non-VO Users, as they are able to simply touch the like or comment buttons to activate them without needing to open the post itself.. 6. Not all elements within a post in the news feed view are read by VO. If someone shared a link, VO just announces, " Jane Doe shared a a link" but does not speak the link or associated information even though it is displayed on the screen in the news feed view. 7. If the Poster has tagged another FB subscriber within their post, double-tapping the post actually opens the tagged person's profile page rather than the desired post. 8. Only a dozen or so posts are displayed in the news feed and there is no obvious way to lengthen that list or go to older posts. -Bryan

Although having read the above comments clearly shows that this app still has some way to go, I definitely love this version the best. I too get the 'network error' error at the bottom of the page; have noted the mislabelling of the home/back button. Also, I have noticed that my newsfeed is in a random order: Someone's status from this morning, followed by someone's photo from Thursday and someone's status from yesterday, and then only do I get to the status/checkin/photo buttons, which seems a little strange. I too only have a few items in the newsfeed, but perhaps this will grow. What I really like about the app is that the buttons for notifications, messages etc are clearly labelled and they say how many there are. I particularly like that there is a friend requests button at the top, as it used to take me ages to access requests in the past. I have also noticed that if a post is quite long, it doesn't read it all out, it stops in the middle. The way to solve this is to click on it and go into the list of comments etc. I don't mind that you have to do that and that we have to do that to comment/like, unlike non-VO users as it just keeps it clear and uncluttered. I like the fact that it is easy to comment and like each individual post and that it responds and changes quickly and the buttons here seem properly labelled. I have still to play with it a lot more, not having explored groups or friends yet, but I am impressed so far!

I too am happy with the accessibility improvements, but not being able to get past the 15 latest news feed items makes the app practically useless. No one should be in a hurry to throw out Voice Book VO.

I have found a way of getting more news feed items. When you get down to the last item find it with your finger by dragging, and then do a dubletab and hold, then swipe up and release. Note: you have to swipe almost to the top of the screen for it to work. Now wait a few secunds, and you should now be able to see more items in the feed. And when you get to the last item again, just do the same. The cool thing is, that facebook remembers how many items you have loaded last time you had the app open, and fill the places with new posts if there is any. But please don't hang me up on it, this is how it is working on my device. Try it on your device, and see if it works. If there is anything I need to explain better, just tel me. And sorry for my bad English!

The news feed trick works, but I have found that once I have viewd notifications or presumably any other overlay that I can no longer read any of the content below the top bar. Nothing short of rebooting the phone makes it work again. The app remains pretty much worthless to me except for quickly reviewing notifications. At least they fixed that.

I don't know if it was the latest update to Facebook or the move to iOS 6, but I was having less trouble using the app. Checkin worked for the first time. However, there is still a problem after using the notifications, and I suspect other menus though I didn't try. I havent' heard anyone else raise this particular complaint but it's pretty consistent for me. If I dismiss the notification overlay without actually opening any of them nothing on the screen except the top line is accessible. The app becomes useless.

I just updated the app and now I can't even log in to check out the changes. It still tells me that I'm signed into my account on iOS and the continue button is there, but when I tap it I get an error message. I click the ok button that comes upand the text fields are there, but even when I enter my info it doesn't work, just another error message appears. I've tried deleting and reinstalling the app then retyping my info in settings. Nothing worked. Although I don't use the app a lot anyway, it annoys me that all of a sudden it's unusable for me. I thought it worked ok before. Anyone else with this problem? Any solution?

You still can't access friend list on the iPad. I still preferred it when VoiceOver read everything seperately, the name, status then the like and comment buttons. Also, just wondered if a person has location enabled on their status, does facebook still display it as voice over longer announces it.?

Before I instal the update, are there any crucial accessibility issues? I know they fixed some, but did they make some as well. Lol

The new function to message/chat doesn't seem to be accessible from the iPad version.

Sorry if anyone posted this already, but the friends page now reads the friends, as opposed to just being silent, at least on the iPhone. i'm in the process of getting a new iPad, so I'll test it as well as the message/chat function as well when I do.

Hi friends, first of all, let me introduce myself. I'm Caleb from Malaysia. Have any of you tried to tag friends as the app suggest you can do? So far, I'll have to do a double tap and hold to tag friends. The problem is, if I want to tag a friend in the middle of comment, that is not possible. Any idea? Thanks.

I found the sort button. In the place where it says news feed, there is a gear beside it. Double tap that and you can sort. I still haven't found the share button or the video like thing.

To delete a Facebook friend you need to find that person on your list of friends, then once you're in their Facebook you will find, Their photo then their Facebook name after that it will say friend click on that and it gives you an option to put them in a group like friends close friends family etc. if you scroll all the way to the end to the last option before cancel is unfriend. hopefully I helped. I love the new update so far did not find the share button if anyone finds that let me know it was like a birthday gift to me since today is my birthday

When viewing a post with likes, I am unable to see the names of people who liked the post. When I double-tap the link that says something like "Jamie Pauls and 5 others liked this post" I am taken to the user profile for Jamie Pauls and not the list of names. Also, even though I see two buttons within a post, one stating the number of likes and another stating the number of comments, both buttons seem to take me to the comments only. Is there a work-around for this?

Jamie, As you are reading your time line of your friends statuses. You are correct you will see how many Likes and Comments for that particular status. Just do a single finger double tap to open that status up in to a new page. From this page you will be able to Like or Comment to that status. As you will see also are the comments that the people have left plus the ability to Like or Comment to their comments. Now If you know there are say like 4 people have liked this then right before the Comments it will say 4 people like this. Just use a single finger double tap on that. This will now show you whom Liked that status. So in some ways that is confusing because it isn't a button nor an actual link that Voice Over would normally say so. Hope that make sense and works for you. I see the others have found the way to delete or unfriend your friends. Plus, the ability to change your Newsfeed in how you want it sorted. So in short. This update is a major update. I will see about the Share as the Facebook as described that is new and see if there is a way. Others have found if a person gives a link to a video or a page. I'm not certain how you can Like or make a Comment on to those type of Status at this point. For now it does take you directly to those links. HTH