I thought the page down key would hang up a call. When I press it to hang
up, though, it acts like the end key, moving to the bottom of my contacts
list. What did I miss?
Page up is to answer a call; but, when not in a call but in the contacts
list, could it be made to call that person instead of having to use both
hands to do Control-L? I see, though, that this might need to have the
currently calling person focused on the contacts list, lest there be no
dialog pop up when they call. Otherwise, you'd call the person on the
contacts list instead of answering the current call. Yes, I have had a few
times there be no dialog come up when receiving a call and found no way to
answer it.
Another point on the request for authorization... I did control-R to read
the event history. There was no indication that anyone had sent a request
for authorization until after I'd shown those requests via the view menu
and then authorized them. If this history included these requests before
finding them, it would be another way to know what I'd missed, or maybe
more to the point that I'd missed anything I needed to know. I do think
the easiest way, however, would be for the requests to show up in the main
window with show all contacts.
On the subject of video availability, let me suggest that we have a good
reason for including such a feature as soon as Skype allows. Instead of
only allowing callers to see us or our background setting, we could use
this video feed to show things to a sighted friend and receive information
back about the object. How about holding up a t-shirt to have someone tell
you what's on it, so you won't have to wait for a sighted person to come by
and tell which shirt it is, assuming you don't have it labeled or have lost
its label? How about identifying a grocery item that not even the ID Mate
has in its database? How about reading a document? You might not have a
scanner; but, even if you do, it might not read the document properly or
can't because of graphics or colors. Ever try to read a logo to find out
the name of the business for which a piece of mail deals? So, please let
Skype know, if that's what's needed to get this going, that it's not just
for the fun of it but can be most useful as well.
Thanks!
Marilyn
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