The short answer: I coded for the Edit Profile method of editing mood text long ago, but it doesn't work on all machines, and Skype doesn't give me sufficient means to fix it for every possible case. I confess I forgot about the HTML-based method because I personally avoid that HTML area at all times. :-) You can still use the Edit Profile method by tabbing just one stop past where JAWS says your name and "link Manage" and then pressing Space to get the mood text into an edit box. JAWS may name that spot correctly or say "Unknown field."
Details follow for anyone curious. I verified the below information earlier this week in response to a report against the Edit Profile method from another user, and again today as I was writing this message: The Edit Profile approach involves choosing "Edit your Profile" from the Profile menu, then tabbing several times and pressing Space on a control that opens the mood message in an edit box. The process still works, but JAWS varies in its ability to announce the point correctly where you are supposed to press Space. For a long time, there has been code in the Skype scripts to improve the announcement of the place where you press Space to open the edit box for the mood message. However, focus is not reported to JAWS correctly at that point and there is not an indication, even sufficient for scripting, of that situation on some machines (including mine, incidentally). The only method I found to detect this situation uses the PC cursor's actual screen position to figure out where focus landed. On some high-resolution machines these days though, the PC cursor position is reported incorrectly to JAWS, so when a script asks for it, a wrong answer is returned. This same problem is what breaks the reporting in my TeamTalk scripts of who is transmitting in the channel/participant tree, the same thing that makes it impossible to click categories and packages accurately in a Cygwin setup window, etc. I have had discussions with Freedom Scientific about this, starting in early July. We can hope that a fix for this issue will soon appear in JAWS itself. In the mean time, the method I explained at the top of this message will work for editing the Skype mood text. I will have to re-examine the HTML area that I've been dodging for so long though. I did not realize there was any advantage to editing mood text there instead of in the profile area. On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 04:50:36PM +0300, Kostadin Kolev wrote: Hello, >Re adding a new mood message versus editing an old one, I don't >understand the difference. I thought there was just one, and you edit >it every time you want it changed. The method from the "Edit Profile" window lets you edit the message. But you cannot share it to Facebook, even if you've linked Skype and Facebook. The method from the Skype home window lets you only enter a new mood message and it will replace the old one. Here however, you can choose to share the entered mood message to Facebook, if you wish so and if you've linked Skype and Facebook. ___ Best wishes, Kostadin Kolev ???? 10.8.2014 ??. ?? 16:38, Steve Matzura ????????????: >Re the fix showing up in the next public release, yes, here's hoping. > >Re adding a new mood message versus editing an old one, I don't >understand the difference. I thought there was just one, and you edit >it every time you want it changed. > >On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 16:05:39 +0300, you wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>You can edit your mood message in Skype from within Skype in 2 ways: >> >>1. From the "Edit profile" window. In the current stable release of >>Skype however, the situation is as you've described it. Actually, there >>is a TAB stop for the mood message, but the screen readers don't >>announce it. It's after the "Manage" link in the beginning of the >>window. In the test version of Skype 6.18.64.106 this issue is fixed. >>Hope the fix will land in the next stable release of Skype. >> >>2. From the Skype home window. There however, you can only post a new >>mood message and not edit your old one. >> >>___ >>Best wishes, >>Kostadin Kolev >> >>?? 10.8.2014 ?. ? 15:41, Steve Matzura ??????: >>>To return this message to its original thread, I'm hoping Master Doug >>>will soon give us JAWS users the capability to edit the mood message. >>>Of course, it's accessible with the JAWS cursor, but either my own >>>Skype window or windows is or are not set up correctly to work right, >>>or the instructions for editing the mood text field as given in the >>>current scripts documentation need updating. The doc says the mood >>>message is edited from the profile screen off the Skype menu. In my >>>setup anyway, there are no tab stops for this field, no links to open >>>it, and no Save button that I can find without use of the JAWS cursor. >>>Since I use the mood message field to indicate to others what the talk >>>topic is when the account is in use, I eagerly await either a fix to >>>this, or more probably, a correction to my way of using the scripts or >>>Skype itself. >>>Thanks for posting to the skype english list. >>> >>>to contact skype support with 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 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://lists.tffppodcast.com/listinfo.cgi/skypeenglish-tffppodcast.com >>> >>Thanks for posting to the skype english list. >> >>to contact skype support with 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 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://lists.tffppodcast.com/listinfo.cgi/skypeenglish-tffppodcast.com >Thanks for posting to the skype english list. > >to contact skype support with 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 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://lists.tffppodcast.com/listinfo.cgi/skypeenglish-tffppodcast.com > Thanks for posting to the skype english list. to contact skype support with 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 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://lists.tffppodcast.com/listinfo.cgi/skypeenglish-tffppodcast.com -- Doug Lee [email protected] http://www.dlee.org SSB BART Group [email protected] http://www.ssbbartgroup.com "A mailing list is a crude but effective cross between a chain letter and a shouting match." -Andrew Kantor Thanks for posting to the skype english list. to contact skype support with 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 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://lists.tffppodcast.com/listinfo.cgi/skypeenglish-tffppodcast.com
