Not sure if your questions were fully addressed yet. How to send voicemails: Press the Applications key, or Shift+F10 if you don't have one, on a person's entry in the Contacts list or the Conversations list. Then either Call the person and wait for the voicemail to pick up, or go down farther and select Send Voicemail to send one without calling first.
How to play a voicemail: Find the person's entry in the Conversations list and press Enter to open the chat window (or screen area in Default view) for that person. Shift+Tab to the chat message list or, with my scripts, use Ctrl+5 once or twice to focus it directly. Then I suggest pressing the End key to jump immediately to the last message, then if necessary, arrow up to the line that actually contains the voicemail. Finally, from that line, Tab until you hear "Play" and press Space to play the message. When done, you can press "Delete" if you like, to keep from accumulating old voicemail files on your computer. I don't know how to call a person not in your contact list, except an actual phone number for which you can use Call Phones in the View menu or Ctrl+D to go there directly. It may be possible to call a non-contact, non-phone number; I just haven't had to try that. Most Skype users don't allow calls from unknown users anyway though. How to answer an incoming contact detail request: Follow the steps for playing a voicemail, but find the contact request line and tab to Accept, instead of finding a voicemail and tabbing to Play. How to request contact details from someone already in your list: Find the name as you would when sending a voicemail, but choose "Resend Contact Request" instead of Call or Send Voicemail. How to search for a contact: Type all or the first part of the contact's name or Skype ID, then use DownArrow to move through matches. Press Escape to clear the search box at any time. I believe it will clear itself after a short time automatically as well. On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 12:39:41PM -0400, ken lawrence wrote: Hi skype users. a question. a friend of mine has had trouble her skype won?t let her alt page up and alt page down to answer calls. now that microsoft has said demand we use their product and accessibility for blind be damned by ending support for GW connect?s primary skype kit and now that I have uninstalled it, do any on list know if microsoft will offer any tutorials or have proposed any changes in skype to honor their commitment to accessible since for us each time skype is updated it is more and more complicated? so questions. one How do I answer voicemails, send voice mails or call someone not on my contacts list like the custom contact feature GW connect had? how do I reauthorize invited contacts and how to search more eaisly now that we are forced to use a product that is more and more difficult to use by the blind each day. my friend?s not on this list. I think I will propose a resolution to our state convention critical of microsoft?s seemingly less concern for accessibility and forced us of an increasingly less accessible product. if we don?t do something here the blind will fall further and further behind in the digital devide. -- Doug Lee [email protected] http://www.dlee.org SSB BART Group [email protected] http://www.ssbbartgroup.com "I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum." Bishop Desmond Tutu
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