OK, this applies both to Leopard, and to Tiger.
When you receive a text chat:
1. make sure you're in the skype application.
2. Use your vo F2 window chooser to get to the chat window, if you're not
there already.
3. you'll land in an input text field. This is where you type your
responses, and hit return to see them. Incoming msgs won't be automatically
read, so, here is what you need to do.
4. If you vo left arrow once from the input box, you'll be on an unknown
area. OK. Interact with that unknown area.
5. Now, you're gonna land immediately on a frame area which has the history
of the conversation. Don't be confused. If you vo left now once after
interacting with the unknown you will hear history frame, but that is not
what you want. Trust me. I'll explain to ya in a minute what that is.
6. So you're on the edit field from step 1. You vo lefted one time, to
the unknown and you interacted with it.
7. OK, that through you on another item which is the history of this chat.
So interact again. Basically what you've done is a nested interaction. In
other words: you interacted first with that unknown to the left a the edit
box. Then under that unknown, you interacted again! with the first item it
landed you on.
8. Now watch. This is so? easy! Vo left, and right. There ya go! There
are all of your messages.
Now here is something you may wanna do that'll make things a lot easier for
ya.
1. Hit vo F8 to go to the voiceover utility.
2. Interact with the catagory table.
3. Vo down to navigation.
4. Stop interacting with the table.
5. Vo right until you hear mouse cursor tracks voiceover cursor. Uncheck
that box.
6. ok, you're set. hit command w to close that window.
7. Now go back to the chat window.
8. interact with the unknown, then immediagely with that item it then puts
you on.
9. Now, do vo end. I said end, like e n d, not the letter n.
10. notice that is the last msg that either you sent or the other person
sent. ok, now route your mouse with vo command F5.
Now what's so cool about this, is because you turned off the option for the
mouse to track your voice over cursor, what you now can do is being careful
not to bump your mouse, stop interacting and go back to the edit field.
now, type something to your friend. Now watch! Because your mouse wasn't
following your voiceover cursor as you voed back to the edit box, guess
where it still is! Yup? It's still in your history. So, now, hit vo F5.
Careful? here! Don't? do vo command! F5, or you'll screw this up. and
don't bump your physical mouse. Just do vo F5. Pretty cool huh? It read
you what was under your mouse, which is the last incoming or out going msg!
So now, you can stay in that edit box, yet keep doing vo f5 every now and
then, to monitor when someone's sent an msg. Pretty cool, ey?
Chris.
