Hi Dough, Have you tried something with the JAWS options found in the Settings Center under the nodes Miscellaneous and Caret and Cursor? Perhaps changing these options for the Skype.jcf configuration file might help, although it is true that could make the scripts on typical resolutions a bit unusable.
-----Mensaje original----- De: Skypeenglish [mailto:[email protected]] En nombre de Doug Lee Enviado el: martes, 10 de junio de 2014 09:17 a.m. Para: screen readers' access to skype and its interface. Asunto: Re: [Skypeenglish] Setting Up Skype Options on Windows 8.1 Issues I may have partial info for this one... I recently had to switch to a Windows 8.1 laptop as well. This is one of those newer laptops with very high screen resolution: my desktop area is reported as 1920 by 1080. I am told that the screen resolution may have as much to do with this as the Windows version, but I don't have proof of what causes what I am about to explain... On this machine, I can RouteJAWSToPC, find text, review the screen, etc.; but when I try to click with a LeftMouseButton command, the click actually occurs at the wrong place. Further evidence (of quite a technical nature) indicates that JAWS' idea of what is where on the screen is inaccurate. This matters to the Skype scripts when you are trying to manage sound checkboxes, because the script code has to examine graphic icons to see which are checkmarks and which are empty spaces. On my machine, the first item says it is checked, but others say they are not checked even when they are actually checked. This does not explain your inability to play sounds by pressing the Play button on that screen; that button works fine here. It might explain why you can't seem to check any sounds though. Unfortunately I don't have a solution to this problem at this point, and I suspect resolution of this problem will require a change in JAWS itself; specifically, I suspect JAWS will have to indicate to Windows that it is "DPI aware" before I can start getting accurate answers as to where things are on these newer computers. Luckily, the need for this sort of text and pixel examination is declining, with the advent of things like UI Automation, a protocol that allows JAWS and other screen readers to find out about controls without having to interpret their visual appearance. Still, applications that don't support such newer protocols will remain with us for a while. On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 07:41:31AM -0400, Joy Relton wrote: Good morning, I have Windows 8.1 on my laptop on which I have also installed Skype and Skype Talking without any problems. I have the latest scripts installed. However, lately something has changed and it is challenging my analytical processes. I cannot set up the sounds under tools\options so that the various sounds indicate various actions such as a file has been sent and the like. What happens is that the first item in the list is checked and Jaws indicates that it is checked When I tab to the "play sound" it plays without a problem. However, as I continue down the list none of the others will indicate that they are checked when I press the spacebar. Nor, will the sounds play. The sounds and speakers on the computer are working fine as I do in fact hear the sound when someone is calling me. However, I now hear the sort of swish sound when colleagues in my group send a message but JAWS doesn't read it to me and the keystrokes to answer a call do not always work even though they are checked as keystrokes and the other setting within the options are set to allow it to work including the inclusion of Skype Talking in the list of programs which should function with Skype. (my word) I'm assuming something has changed on my computer which is impacting the functionality of Skype. Since we use Skype continuously this has become a bit of a problem for me. Any suggestions as to what to look at, change or do? I have repaired JAWS 15.09023 64-bit. I have run and thus uninstalled and reinstalled the scripts for 6.9 and later. Thanks. 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