I know about the Alt+number issue. I should be able to fix that one, I just haven't gotten to it yet.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 04:54:05PM -0000, Aiden Gardiner wrote: 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 >SSB BART Group [email protected] >http://www.ssbbartgroup.com >"It's not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few >accomplish >it after the age of six." --John W. Gardner and Francesca Gardner Reese > >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 > > >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/ > >and for a searchable archives page go here. >http://bit.ly/64Y48 > >thanks and have a wonderful day. > > >_______________________________________________ >Skypeenglish mailing list >[email protected] >http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com 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 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/ and for a searchable archives page go here. http://bit.ly/64Y48 thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list [email protected] http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com -- Doug Lee [email protected] http://www.dlee.org SSB BART Group [email protected] http://www.ssbbartgroup.com "Sometimes I think my learning curve is a circle." -- David Andrews 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 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/ and for a searchable archives page go here. http://bit.ly/64Y48 thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list [email protected] http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com
