Facebook Challenged by the Visually Impaired, and Acts

Facebook has teamed up with the American Foundation for the Blind in making Facebook more accessible to visually impaired users. A long time in coming, the master programmers are Facebook have been working diligently on this project for two years, and have made considerable and consistent improvements to meet the demands of visually impaired users. Some of the things they've worked on:

audio captcha for signups
non-java-scripted access to apps like the gift shop
an html-only version of Facebook for IE, Firefox, and Safari
shortcut keys for keyboard-only users for navigation
making chat accessible to JAWS

They also take suggestions from users and try to incorporate those changes as much as possible as they continue to develop Facebook itself.

They are doing it right, and I'm pleased to see the hard work that has been put into this effort. If you'd like to see Facebook's rundown of accessibility features, click here.