OK, this is kind a rough, but let me explain the deal to yall.
OK, firstly and foremost,
You wanna bring up Skype. Now, once it's up, you wanna vo right arrow until
you hear use regular contact view popup button.
Now vo space on that popup and make sure that it's set to regular contact
view. Oddly enough, I am not having very good luck with this in compact
view, so be aware.
Now, basicly, here's the deal:
Yes, you have an option in the account menu that says edit mood message...
however, there are a few things that you gotta do before this is gonna work.
Basically, now that you're on regular contact view, the situation is this:
Basicly, in a nutshell, you have a couple of unlabled images on the screen.
they're not buttons, or scroll areas or anything like that, they're just
images. I mean, they actually are things, but vo's gonna see 'em just as
nothing more than unlabeled images. Now, there is a little? problem with
this. The thing is this:
By default, Voiceover's set to navigate images, so that is fine. The
problem! however, is it is not! set to automatically announce unlabeled!
images. so, because a this, you're not gonna be able to chhange your mood
message. So, here is the work around trick.
1. Start Skype if it's not already running. If it is, then go command tab
to it.
2. OK, now that it's up in the foreground, what I want you to do, is vo
right for me until you get that use regular contact view button. It's
labeled so don't fret. Once there hit vo space for me on it.
2. OK, now vo up and down arrow for me until you get to use regular compact
view. If it's already checked, then just hit escape, but otherwise, hit vo
space on it to select it in the popup menu.
3. OK, great! That's set. Now, this is gonna sound stupidly irrelivent,
but hear? me, out. you gotta? do this, or it won't work. Hit Vo F8 to
bring up your voiceover utility.
4. OK, this is gonna land you in the catagory table, assuming you're using
Leopard. If you're in Tiger, then, I think! this is under the web tab.
Either that or navigation, but in any rate, getting back to Leopard, which
is what most a you all are using anyway, you wanna interact with this
catagory table you landed in, so do vo shift down arrow for me.
5. OK, now, vo down arrow until you get to where it says web. Once there
do a vo shift up arrow to stop interacting with that table.
6. OK, now, what I want you to do, is to vo right arrow until you reach a
checkbox that says something to the effect of navigate images. This should!
be already checked, but if it's not, then check it, please.
7. Now? here? comes the magic jellybean! Vo right one more time for me.
Notice what it said? Navigate unlabled images. You wanna check that box.
By default as you see, it isn't checked.
8. now you're all set. so, command w to close that voiceover utility.
9. Now: back in the Skype window, hit command comma to get to the Skype
preferences. I just wanna make sure of one thing.
10. interact with the toolbar in this window. Then vo right until you get
to the advanced button, and hit vo space on it. This should stop you
interacting with the toolbar, but do a vo shift up arrow anyway, until you
hear a little ding.
11. Now vo right to the checkbox that says show itunes song info in my mood
message. Make sure it's unchecked.
12. Once you see it's unchecked, then do command w to close outta the
preferences. OK, now you're all set to rock and roll.
13. Now what we're gonna do, is go up in the menu bar, so hit vo m. Then
right arrow until you get the account menu. Then down arrow to open it.
14. Down arrow one more time to select the first option in the menu. Then
type the word edit. this should land you on edit mood message elipsis.
15. ok, hit return on that.
16. OK, it's not gonna appear it did anything, but again: hear me out.
This next part's kind a tricky, but is very? doable, once you know what to
do. What I want you to do for me now, is vo left and right until you reach
the contact list table. Don't interact with it, just vo over to it. You'll
know you're there, as it's the only table in this window.
17. OK, now: notice something: vo left one time from that table. Didja
hear that? Image. You didn't hear that before didja. See, the reason you
didn't, is because you didn't have unlabeled images enabled in the web
catagory of the voice over utility. So, that's why it was skipping over
these. So vo right again for me to the table. This way we're at home base,
and I know where you're at.
18. OK, now vo left one time from that table. Remember: don't interact
with the table, just go there, then vo left once from it. You'll hear
image.
19. OK, now, vo left again. You'll hear it say image again. That! is your
mood text. So, even if you have cursor tracking on, hear me out.
20. Do a vo command F5 to route your mouse pointer. Then, watch this.
21. Do vo F5. Not? vo command! F5, but just vo? F5. See? You're mouse is
now on your mood text. If you didn't hear anything, that's fine, cause you
may not have anything in your mood msg. In any rate...
22. Now hit vo shift space. Not? vo space. If you do vo space, it'll just
ding atcha. So, vo shift space, to click.
23. Now you're in your mood edit box. Pretty cool! Huh? So, if you start
typing, it's gonna append to the enda what you already have there, so even
if it's already blank, you cannot be too sure. So hit the delete key. If
you don't have a delete key, then just hit back space, until you get a
baunk, and it's all cleared out.
24. Now type your new mood msg, and then hit return.
That's it, my friend!
You're all done! Congrads, you just changed your mood text!
Now if you wanna change it again, just go back to that second image to the
left a the table, route your mouse, then click, and hit delete, to cflear
all of it out, type a new msg, and hit return.
Be aware, if you command q and quit Skype, then, the next time you open up
Skype, you'll have to go to edit mood message in the account menu before you
can get that second image thingy to work.
More Skype typs and tricks coming soon.
Chris.
