Making Connections and Having Fun Accessibly Via Facebook

Description

Are you interested in learning more about Facebook, but have concerns about using the social media platform? Are you worried about the best ways to access it, protecting yourself while using it, or actually finding people with whom to connect? Are you overwhelmed wondering where to even begin? Do you suspect that Facebook may not even be for you, but you’d still like to experience it demonstrated to be sure?

Mystic Access is here to help with our three-session event, Making Connections and Having Fun Accessibly Via Facebook. It is taught by Kim Nova, who has spent more than a decade using the platform, and has watched it grow, change, and vary widely in terms of its accessibility over the years. There’s quite a learning curve to using it, especially in the beginning when you’re just learning how it works. However, once you get started and figure out how you want to access it, there’s a lot you can do to have fun utilizing Facebook for both work and play.

What you’ll Learn

Session One: The Basics

What is Facebook, sometimes called FB for short?
Why use it?
Advantages of Facebook.
Disadvantages.
Facebook, privacy, and protecting yourself.
Facebook and advertising.

Concepts to know and understand

Newsfeed… once called wall
Profile
Account
Posts
Comments
Notifications
Messages
Messenger (for mobile apps)
Tagging
Friends
Following
Liking / Reacting
Pages
Groups

Facebook and Accessibility
Facebook on different internet browsers.
Mobile versus full page.
The Facebook apps.

The following sections will provide demonstrations via a PC.

A note on recording and omitting information for privacy.

Demonstrating how specific browsers and various versions of Facebook differ on a PC.
How Facebook differs when using JAWS, NVDA, and Narrator.
A note about changes to accessibility.

Session Two: Getting Started (this session uses a PC for demonstration)

Account setup.
Creating your profile.
Uploading photos.
Creating posts.

Let’s get connected

Conducting searches
Finding friends.
Viewing profiles
Viewing and following pages
Discovering and joining groups.
Facebook events
Viewing notifications
Sending and responding to messages.
Exploring the newsfeed
Sponsored content
Liking and reacting to posts.
commenting on posts.
Tagging friends.
Using emojis.
Facebook Live

Facebook Configuration

Account options
Updating your email and password
Two-factor authentication

Configuring Facebook Settings
Editing your profile
Unfriending / unfollowing / blocking

Session Three: Going Mobile

Facebook on iOS
Facebook on Android
Facebook on Fire OS

Topics covered in this mobile browsing session include:
Sorting your newsfeed
Favorites
Writing posts
Conducting searches
Finding friends.
Viewing profiles
Viewing and following pages
Discovering and joining groups.
Facebook events
Viewing notifications
Sending and responding to messages.
Exploring the newsfeed
Sponsored content
Liking and reacting to posts.
commenting on posts.
Tagging friends.
Using emojis.
Watching live content
Facebook Configuration

Concluding Thoughts.

Not included in this documentation

Specifically demonstrating Facebook on Mac. If you’re a proficient Mac user, however, the information shared for the PC should be more than enough to get you started nicely.
Creating groups / pages
Creating Facebook Live sessions
Creating Photo albums

How it Works

When you register for this event, you’ll receive three sessions (and at least three hours) of comprehensive audio content via your Mystic Access account over three weeks. Session One will be available on Monday, February 7, 2022, Session Two on February 14, and session Three on February 21. The audio files will be found on the Downloads page in your Mystic Access account. You will be notified via email when each session is ready for download.

Get your Questions Answered Live

Have questions? We’re sure you will, and are offering a live 90-minute Q&A session to try to answer them for you. If you can’t be there live, the session will be recorded and available via the downloads page in your Mystic Access account. The timing for this session isn’t set in stone, but we’re anticipating an early March 2022 date.

DAISY Navigable Option

After the event concludes we’ll create a fully-navigable DAISY book of the content which event participants receive for free.

Note that while we do plan to turn this into a product after the event, we cannot guarantee that the price will remain the same as it is currently. Also to make sure your specific questions are answered, we encourage you to join the event.

Ready to get started? Your investment is $49.00. Register and get ready to learn about all that you can do, learn, and discover using Facebook. Thanks for your interest!