Thanks, Doug. I'm also glad that they bothered to keep the old version around. In the past there has been a couple of cases where they removed a version that was the only one that would work with accessability products. I'm speaking of the PPC devices. After it was pointed out that this was the only version that worked the returned it to the site and all was well. They seem to be a group that is at least willing to do what they can to make their products useful to the blind community.
J. R. -------------------- J. R. Westmoreland E-mail: jr at jrw.org -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:skypeenglish-bounces at emissives.com] On Behalf Of Doug Lee Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 1:58 PM To: screen access software with skype Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] FW: Comment on the skype site It means that Skype knows 4.0 is not all the way there for us, they're working on it, but they don't want to advise us to use Skype 4.0 before they're done making it accessible. Obviously they've gone some of the way, but not all the way. I regard it as unfortunate that they did not get all of the accessibility into 4.0, but fortunate that they are aware enough of what that means to say something about it. I also think the fact that this announcement is on their main site, both for screen reader users and, last I checked, visibly farther down on the page, will actually help spur them to finish the accessibility so they can quit announcing publicly that there is a shortcoming. :) On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 01:24:42PM -0600, Sarah Alawami wrote: I found the following comment on the skype web site. We recommend that blind and visually impaired people use Skype 3.8 for Windows and do not upgrade to 4.0 this time. Accessibility features have not yet been completed in the new release. Are they just behind or is this still their recommendation? Doug, you have worked pretty close with the folks from skype can you comment? Thanks to all, J. R. -------------------- J. R. Westmoreland E-mail: jr at jrw.org Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To access tutorials and other goodies go to http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list Skypeenglish at emissives.com http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com -- Doug Lee dgl at dlee.org http://www.dlee.org SSB BART Group doug.lee at ssbbartgroup.com http://www.ssbbartgroup.com "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done." --Helen Keller Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To access tutorials and other goodies go to http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list Skypeenglish at emissives.com http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com
