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it can be made to work with window’s8.1 don’t know about window’s10, it is a
hack but it does work.
> On 17 Sep 2015, at 07:29, Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net> wrote:
>
> GW Connect was discontinued long ago, it can't even be gotten any longer, why
> recommend something that doesn't exist or isn't supported and may not even
> work with the later operating systems?
>
>
>
> On 9/17/2015 7:55 AM, Peter Scanlon wrote:
>> Scripts make it much easier. Also I know a few people who still use the GW
>> connect work around.
>>
>> From: Dane Trethowan
>> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 4:37 AM
>> To: PC Audio Discussion List
>> Subject: Re: Skype For Windows: A Discovery Made
>>
>> Interesting, I thought we’d gone beyond using scripts for Skype now, it
>> seems to me at any rate that the latest version of Skype for Windows is very
>> accessible indeed, has been like that for quite some time and full credit to
>> Microsoft addressing many accessibility issues.
>>
>> Its great that people are writing scripts but I don’t like to use them when
>> I can avoid doing so as they isolate the user from the way the running App
>> actually works so therefore you’re tied to one system or one Screen Reader
>> and thus don’t have the knowledge of how functions are used in the App
>> itself, only my opinion of course.
>>
>>
>>> On 17 Sep 2015, at 4:33 am, brianolesen <br...@blindkom.dk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> If you're using the scripts you can just press ctrl shift d to enable or
>>> disable the dialpad.
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
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>>> Fra: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] På vegne af Dane
>>> Trethowan
>>> Sendt: 16. september 2015 19:19
>>> Til: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
>>> Emne: Skype For Windows: A Discovery Made
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> For those who use Skype For Windows, I discovered that the feature to
>>> generate tones whilst on a call now works, in previous versions of Skype
>>> For windows getting this feature to work was problematic at best - in most
>>> cases I couldn’t get the function to work at all -.
>>>
>>> Anyway Microsoft have certainly fixed the problem so here’s how to activate
>>> the function.
>>>
>>> Whilst on a call use the tab key to move to the “Dial Pad” button and press
>>> space, from here you can use the top row of numbers on your keyboard to
>>> enter responses to automated bank systems or whatever, you can even paste a
>>> string of numbers into the Edit box which comes up when the “Dial Pad”
>>> button is pressed and have the appropriate tones entered for you by Skype
>>> automatically.
>>>
>>>
>>> **********
>>> Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the
>>> halfwits in this world behind.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> **********
>> Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the
>> halfwits in this world behind.
>>
>>
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