Steve, wait, ok, so when you hit command+4 to get to the history, I'm not
following what you're saying then you gotta do to get to the voice mails.
Are they not in the outline with all the other items?
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven M. Sawczyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: using my nice new mac with skype..
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
