Adding a Profile

Hi, my name is Vikki Vaughan, and in today's workshop, we'll walk through creating our Facebook profile. We'll personalize our profile by adding several photos. This series is designed for people who use a screen reader.

If you're not a screen reader user, be sure to check out Hadley's Low Vision version of this series.

Now, before we get started, you'll need to create your Facebook account. You can find directions for creating your account in the Resource section below this workshop. It will take you step-by-step through the process.

This workshop picks up after you've created your Facebook account, and takes you to the next step, creating your profile. The first thing we'll do is add a cover photo. Then we'll add a profile picture.

The cover photo is a larger photo at the top of our profile. Our profile picture is the image that others see throughout Facebook, like when we comment on a friend's post. Now we're logged into Facebook and we'll start off by moving to the top of our homepage by pressing Control plus Home.

Screen Reader: Visited link, Facebook.

Vikki: Now, let's use a handy keyboard shortcut to move by landmark. We'll press D as in delta.

Screen Reader: Facebook navigation landmark list with four items home visited link current page.

Vikki: We've landed on our home button. Let's press D once again.

Screen Reader: Account controls and settings, navigation, landmark, your profile graphic button.

- We've moved to our account button. Let's press the Enter key to expand a dropdown menu.

Screen Reader: Two, Facebook document, your profile dialogue. Vikki Hadley link. Your profile. Link Vikki

Vikki: There are times when we wanna use our Control key to silence our screen reader. To make sure that we're all at the same place, let's move to the top of our menu with Control + Home.

Screen Reader: Link, Vikki Hadley.

Vikki: Then we'll press the Enter key to open this link.

Screen Reader: Button graphic, your profile, main landmark, Vikki Hadley, Heading level one.

Vikki: We've left the homepage and are now in our profile on our Facebook wall. This is the place that contains our history on Facebook, our posts, photos and videos. Our activities are displayed in chronological order in a list called our timeline. Let's personalize our Facebook profile by adding a cover photo which serves as a background image for our profile. It's only visible when someone is viewing our wall. We'll do this by pressing the keyboard shortcut Shift + Tab twice to move to the button labeled Add cover photo. So we'll press Shift + tab Once.

Screen Reader: Profile picture actions button.

Vikki: And then we'll press it again, Shift + Tab.

Screen Reader: Add cover photo button.

Vikki: We'll then press the space bar to open a dropdown menu.

Screen Reader: Select photo one of two.

Vikki: Let's down arrow to Upload photo.

Screen Reader: Upload photo two of two.

Vikki: And then press the space bar to select this option.

Screen Reader: Open dialogue, file name, file name.

Vikki: We're now in File Explorer where we'll use our Shift + Tab to move into our items view list, and then our arrow keys to move to the desired photo. We'll press Shift + Tab first.

Screen Reader: Items view list.

Vikki: Then press the right arrow to move to our desired photo.

Screen Reader: Hadley logo not selected, Hadley photo-Vik, Hadley exterior, row one column three, three of four.

Vikki: We'll then press the space bar to select our photo.

Screen Reader: Space.

Vikki: And press our Enter key to choose this photo.

Screen Reader: Two. Vikki Hadley Facebook document. Button profile picture actions.

Vikki: Our next step is to save our cover photo. We'll tab to the Save changes button.

Screen Reader: Cancel button. Save changes button.

Vikki: And press the space bar to select it.

Screen Reader: Unavailable.

Vikki: And voila, our cover photo is up. Now we're ready to add our profile picture. This is the image that others see when we post a comment. We'll start off by tabbing several times until we land on the profile pictures actions button.

Screen Reader: Link to open profile cover photo link. Edit cover photo button. Profile picture actions button.

Vikki: We select this button by pressing our space bar.

Screen Reader: See profile picture one of three.

Vikki: We've opened a dropdown menu, so let's use our down arrow to move to Update profile picture.

Screen Reader: Update profile picture two of three.

Vikki: We'll press the space bar to open it.

Screen Reader: Space. Update profile picture, heading level two. Update profile picture.

Vikki: We've opened the Update profile picture dialogue. Here we'll press Tab twice to move to the Upload photo button.

Screen Reader: Close button. Upload photo button.

Vikki: Let's press the space bar to select the Upload photo button.

Screen Reader: Open dialogue file name, file name, combo box collapsed, edit all plus.

Vikki: We find ourselves back in our picture folder. Once again, we'll use our Shift + Tab to move to our photos, then use our arrow keys to move to the image we want to use. We'll press Shift + Tab first.

Screen Reader: Items view list.

Vikki: Then press the right arrow to our desired photo.

Screen Reader: Hadley logo not selected, row one, column one, one of four. Hadley photo-Vikki Vaughan one column two, two of four.

Vikki: Keep in mind that we want to use a picture that is the best quality available. Let's press our space bar to select our desired image.

Screen Reader: Space.

Vikki: And then the Enter key to choose this photo.

Screen Reader: Update profile picture dialogue, button unavailable upload photo, two. Vikki Hadley, Facebook, Google Chrome.

Vikki: Now while we're here, let's add a description to our profile picture. This provides screen reader users with details about our picture. Let's tab a couple of times to the description edit field.

Screen Reader: Close button, description edit multi-line blank.

Vikki: And now we'll type in our description. I'll type smiling female with blonde hair and brown eyes.

Screen Reader: S-M-I-L-I-N-G F-E-M-A-L-E

Vikki: Now let's tab to the slider bar to reposition our photo.

Screen Reader: Zoom slider 0.21978.

Vikki: Here we use our arrow keys to either zoom in or out of the image. We'll use our right arrow to zoom into the photo.

Screen Reader: 0.23, 0.24.

Vikki: We'll then press Tab several times to move to our save button.

Screen Reader: Zoom in button. Crop photo, toggle button. Make temporary toggle button not pressed. Cancel button, save button.

Vikki: And press the space bar to select it.

Screen Reader: Unavailable. Vikki Hadley face. Alert, your profile picture has been updated to Vikki Hadley, Facebook document, main landmark Vikki Hadley heading level one.

Vikki: Keep in mind that we don't have to use a picture in our profile. We can also use a favorite image. Since our profile picture and our name will always be public, pictures make it easier for others to identify us if they want to send us a friend request. We can also add information to our Facebook profile that makes it easier for others to find us. This information, like our name, profile, and cover photo will always be public. There's also more detailed information we can share such as our workplace, education, current city, hometown, our relationship and name pronunciation. We have the option to add or edit information for any of these categories. If you'd like to learn more about how to include this information, see an example in our resources below this workshop.

In today's workshop, we created our Facebook profile. We personalized our profile by adding a profile picture and a cover photo. These features help our friends locate us on Facebook. I'm Vikki Vaughan, and I thank you for joining me.