I have not tested it with voice over as of yet. I'll have to play with it and see if I can indeed see my online and offline contacts in skuype for my messagger contacts as I did the merge I thin it was sometime last week. On Nov 22, 2012, at 5:15 AM, Clare Page <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi! > If you plan to contact Skype Support about the online status of Messenger > contacts showing up, Mark, I would be grateful, and I'm sure plenty of other > Skype users would be too. > I personally think the issue mentioned above isn't screenreader-related, > given that you can't see the status of Messenger contacts with JAWS and I > can't with NVDA: I don't personally know of any sighted people who have > merged Messenger with Skype so I have no idea whether they have the same > issue. However, I certainly hope this issue will be dealt with in a future > Skype version: in the past I only had online contacts visible in Skype, but > I currently have to show all contacts and sort them by name to get at my > Messenger contacts at all, since even Skype doesn't seem to be able to > detect whether the messenger contacts are online or offline as far as I can > tell. > While I'm here, I have another question. Has anybody been able to add a new > Messenger contact through Skype successfully? If so, how did they do it? > Thanks in advance for an answer if anyone has it. > Bye for now, in the hope of improvements to the merging of Skype and > Messenger in the future! > From Clare > > -----Original Message----- > From: Skypeenglish [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Mark Conquer > Sent: jeudi 22 novembre 2012 01:50 > To: screen readers' access with skype. > Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] Just Put An End to my saga > > Hi Claire, > > I have already made Doug aware of the issue using JAWS Scripts but I can get > Skype support aware of it too. > > Many Thanks > > Mark Conquer > > -----Original Message----- > From: Clare Page > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 1:41 PM > To: 'screen readers' access with skype.' > Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] Just Put An End to my saga > > Hi! > I had that problem, too, Chela, that my Messenger contacts didn't show up > after I merged Messenger with Skype and was told it was successful. I ended > up completely reinstalling Skype, then my Messenger contacts showed up in > the contact list as they should, except that I can't read the online status > of Messenger contacts, it just says "Messenger" next to their names. That > may be just a teething problem with this new feature: hopefully in future > Skype versions the status of Messenger contacts will be readable! > Bye for now! > From Clare > > -----Original Message----- > From: Skypeenglish [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Chela Robles > Sent: mercredi 21 novembre 2012 04:17 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] Just Put An End to my saga > > that or the fact I put the fear of God to NVDA but now I can't see my > contacts and I know my friend Chris is online because I used Instantbird to > double check that but in skype I have it set to show all my contacts, > whether it be facebook chat, MsN Messenger and Skype now everyone else is > showing up except the WLM account which I was told was successfully merged. > Have any of you had that issue or is it just me again? > > -- > "Passion is a great motivator. Music is a life-long learning experience." > -- > Chela Robles a Nationally Certified person in Customer Service, certified by > the National Retail Federation Foundation (NRF): > http://www.nrffoundation.com/ > E-mail: [email protected] > Windows Live Messenger: [email protected] > Skype: jazzytrumpet > I volunteer for Bookshare, to find out more and to volunteer with us,visit: > http://www.bookshare.org/ Need more space, come join dropbox and start with > two gigs of free space and 500 Megabytes as is this is my referral link to > you: http://db.tt/XpUTe0E > -- > > On 11/20/2012 6:41 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: >> I'm curious as to why nvda would not see it in the first place. Ah well. > the beauty of tech eh? >> On Nov 20, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Chela Robles <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Well after more and more complaining on my part, I was able to get >>> around > to tabbing and on the fourth tab after complaining to NVDA several times, I > finally made it see it, it said on the fourth tab knowing the the first tab > it gets me to is the username for skype tabbed three times and heard > "Microsoft Account" link then pressed enter and followed the straightforward > steps to merge and it told me to from now on to sign in with my Microsoft > Account instead. This was on the sign in screen and I didn't do anything to > change settings nothing was wrong on my end, I just had to wait to hear my > screen reader actually see it. I don't know how to further explain what I > did but it finally work, so, let's rejoice that the support team doesn't > have to wrry about hearing from me again. >>> >>> -- >>> "Passion is a great motivator. Music is a life-long learning experience." >>> -- >>> Chela Robles a Nationally Certified person in Customer Service, >>> certified by the National Retail Federation Foundation (NRF): >>> http://www.nrffoundation.com/ >>> E-mail: [email protected] >>> Windows Live Messenger: [email protected] >>> Skype: jazzytrumpet >>> I volunteer for Bookshare, to find out more and to volunteer with >>> us,visit: http://www.bookshare.org/ Need more space, come join >>> dropbox and start with two gigs of free space and 500 Megabytes as is >>> this is my referral link to you: http://db.tt/XpUTe0E >>> -- >>> >>> On 11/20/2012 3:24 PM, Richard Claypool wrote: >>>> I'm really happy that things worked! What ws the problem tht it >>>> wasn't > showing before? >>>> On 11/20/2012 4:21 PM, Chela Robles wrote: >>>>> Hello all I have finally figured out what everyone was talking >>>>> about, I > finally was able to see the Microsoft account link and I followed the steps > precisely! Thanks for baring with me on this saga trail which happily comes > to an end. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks for posting to the skype english list. >>>> >>>> to contact skype support wiht any questions regarding your account >>>> email [email protected] >>>> >>>> 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://marrie.org/skype1 >>>> >>>> To contact the list owner send a message to >>>> mailto:[email protected] >>>> >>>> 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 contact skype support wiht any questions regarding your account >>> email [email protected] >>> >>> 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://marrie.org/skype1 >>> >>> To contact the list owner send a message to >>> mailto:[email protected] >>> >>> 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 contact skype support wiht any questions regarding your account >> email [email protected] >> >> 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://marrie.org/skype1 >> >> To contact the list owner send a message to >> mailto:[email protected] >> >> 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 contact skype support wiht any questions regarding your account email > [email protected] > > 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://marrie.org/skype1 > > To contact the list owner send a message to > mailto:[email protected] > > 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 contact skype support wiht any questions regarding your account email > [email protected] > > 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://marrie.org/skype1 > > To contact the list owner send a message to > mailto:[email protected] > > 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 contact skype support wiht any questions regarding your account email > [email protected] > > 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://marrie.org/skype1 > > To contact the list owner send a message to > mailto:[email protected] > > 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 contact skype support wiht any questions regarding your account email > [email protected] > > 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://marrie.org/skype1 > > To contact the list owner send a message to > mailto:[email protected] > > 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 contact skype support wiht any questions regarding your account 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