The status icons for messenger via skype, are there in visual terms so sighted people can seethem but it isn't labeled yet. Doug is looking at it. But sounds like all screen readers having issues then.
Mark Conquer Sent from my iPhone On 22 Nov 2012, at 14:58, "Sarah Alawami" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 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
