Re: Looking for skype alternatives
Seri, which version of Skype as there's several conflicting guides out there and if I google Skype accessibility Linux I get to pages of results saying it's not accessible at all, bearing in mind I'm running Orca here.
I mean, if I get skype, it tries to give me the beta reardless and I had a hell of a job purging everything from the system to wipe that off my machine, that and I agree, but the problem with my team is that we use voice chat a lot and it has to be cross platform, which is one of the big draws of Skype is it is indeed cross platform, however the alternatives aren't, easily, cross platform.
Then again....I'm never sure which skype is which on Linux any more, I've tried the alpha, no dice with accessibility, tried the beta and like you said, it's horrifically awful and Skype support said they're thankful for feedback but nothing got done about it at all, and those aree the two versions I commonly got pointed to.
< p>EDIT: I have a burning hate for the web Skype client, maybe it's just my laptop but my Chrome/Chromevox loves to lock up on that site as soon as I start typing in an IM windownad I hate he autocomplete in the IM and search fields. I've tried tricking FFF but to no avail, so if there is an accessible Skype version that works with Linux, I'll probably just settle for using that really, currently, I'm routing the IMs through Pidgin with the purple plugins but of course, that doesn't, at least the version I got, do voice and video which is important to my team.EDIT: Do you mean the one at the Skype site, as it gave me the skypeforlinux64.deb ile, if that's the acceissible one then I'm sort of set, else I'm screwed and will have to do a purge AgAIN....ugh....
also I'm not okay with MS shutting off accesss to the Skype branch for all bar the beta users from March onwards, I mean, it's June now and it does state that the olde r versions for Linux will be retired on July 1. Thanks, MS, way to go make everyone use a crappy beta branch that currently has zero screenreader support and no firm promises from MS to fix that...
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