Donal, glad to hear you're puting your Mac to more use, having
switched from Jaws, I know how difficult things sometimes initially
seem. I realize this thread has dealt with the issue of Skype chat
windows, however, another area that remains grossly inaccessible is
voicemails. If you have Skype Voicemails, and if you want to hear
them, you'll have a, well, a real interesting time. Voicemails show
up in their own table, however, the individual items will be
identified by VoiceOver as "unknown." In this way, you won't know who
the voicemail is from, or if you've heard it or not. Activating the
context menu *may* allow you to play the message, however, I've found
that often I have to route the mouse to the table and physically ctrl-
click to get the context menu with play option to appear. I've
reported the "unknown" behavior to Skype after the release of the last
beta, but it was never fixed. Skype did, however, write me a nice
form letter thanking me for my wonderful suggestions and ideas which,
given that i merely identified a problem, was kind of amusing.
Anyway, I'm not sure if anyone else has found a way to deal with Skype
voicemail, I know I'd love to be better able to use it if only it were
more usable.
Steve
On Jul 28, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Donal Fitzpatrick wrote:
Hi all,
I'm sure this has been asked many times before, so I beg your
indulgence for raising the issue of using skype with Voiceover once
again.
Just to explain where I'm coming from on this. I am a very
experienced jaws user who has just started playing seriously with my
mac. I'm trying to get the hang of using skype and, if I'm honest,
making a pig's ear of it.
Are there any easy ways to navigate around that screen? In
particular, I find the chat window very cumbersome to interact with.
For example, are there any quick ways to find out what the latest
incoming message is?
Thanks much,
Donal
