>From: Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >The announcement of upcoming scripts still holds true, but the >announcer, that's me, sorta got swamped with work-related stuff and >has not managed to rear his head back into the Skype scripting arena >for a couple weeks now. :) > >But yes, Skype is becoming more accessible out of the box, and 3.0 >introduces some options to improve accessibility, such as the >menu-based access to mood text setting that Doris mentioned. I've >actually concentrated for several months more on getting Skype >developers to make things work for us instead of scripting them to >work for JAWS. I think it's paying off. > >On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 06:35:41AM +0100, Chipmunks wrote: >Basic accessibility in this version of skype is very good. It's menus >and the contact list now even read with the free Thunder-home >screenreader vrom > >www.screenreader.net > >Likewise, Window Eyes and SKREad work well with it. Skype 3.0 even >has an accessibility mode for extended keyboard navigation that makes >it easier to access the mood mesage text, for example. > >If you are a jaws user and rely on the jaws scripts for extra >functionality, you might want to wait with the upgrade as the skype >scripts are somewhat outdated by now and do not fully support skype >3.0. The script developer announced a forthcoming version of the >scripts to support skype 3.0 but nothing has been released yet as of >this date to my knowledge. > >hth > >Doris
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