Hi Doug,
Another issue is that when in a conversation, the scripts do not think your
in a conversation window when you press alt 1 through 0, but my previous
issue with the scripts thinking that skype was not aware that a screen
reader was running seems to have been corrected in this version, so I don't
need to rely so much on clisk for text chatting.
Aiden
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Lee" <[email protected]>
To: "screen access software with skype" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 4:28 PM
Subject: [Skypeenglish] Skype 4.2 beta status
I just received word that Skype 4.2 has just come out of beta. I can
therefore say this now, and hopefully more later.
There have been a number of differences among Skype 4.2 beta versions
that affected JAWS and the Skype scripts. As has sometimes happened
before, I did not manage to figure out which version would be released
ahead of time, though this time it was mostly because I didn't get to
it in time.
The 4.2 release does not currently work very well with the scripts.
The biggest reason is that Skype 4.2 consolidates the contact list,
conversation list, and history into one window internally. This does
not change what things look like much, but it does prevent the scripts
from having a way to identify which "window" is active as they did
before. This change also means that, when you're in the conversation
list or history, the scripts will have no way to find out what
contacts are online in your contact list, because the contact list is
no longer available when it is not visible. The effect is that
Ctrl+Shift+O and the various commands for listing online, away, etc.,
contacts will no longer work in Skype 4.2. I must stress that this is
not an accessibility problem, because we were accessing things that
weren't accessible to sighted people. :) It is admittedly an
inconvenience, but an inevitable one.
So for now, I recommend that JAWS users stick with Skype 4.1. I will
address the scripting issues in 4.2 as soon as I can.
--
Doug Lee [email protected] http://www.dlee.org
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Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the latest
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To access tutorials and other goodies go to
http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html
To contact the list owner send a message to
mailto:[email protected]
to download a tool to automate the installation of skypewatch go to this link.
http://www.hrvojekatic.tk/
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http://bit.ly/64Y48
thanks and have a wonderful day.
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