I'm stabing at straws or how ever the saying goes. Can yu lower the resolution of your screen on your tablet? I would not know as I dispise and refuse to use a tablit of any kind or ht enew fangled fabulets now
Take care. On Sep 13, 2014, at 9:43 PM, Diana Brent via Skypeenglish <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, if I have focused a contact and think I am in the message field to > type a message, if I accidentally press uparrow, I get a message that says > "Unknown field" and if I press Tab, I get into an advertisement section. I > have discovered that if I press Esc. I can get back into the selected > person's message area. Apologize if I should be changing topics, not sure > what to change it to. > > Diana > > -----Original Message----- > From: Diana Brent via Skypeenglish > [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: September 13, 2014 2:28 PM > To: 'screen readers' access to skype and its interface.' > Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] Text invisible in messages As I Type: New to > list and to Skype > > Thanks much. Only for the sake of confirmation, yes, I have a Microsoft > Surface tablet/laptop, whatever, Windows 8.1, which does have a high > resolution screen. And I never see any of the messages as I type them, first > or future. > > Diana > > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Lee via Skypeenglish [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: September 13, 2014 12:27 PM > To: Diana Brent via Skypeenglish > Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] Text invisible in messages As I Type: New to > list and to Skype > > You might be encountering the problem I have with Skype, JAWS, and Windows > 8.1 on a high-resolution laptop. I've been surprised that I have not heard > of others with the following problem by now. > > On my machine, for at least the first message I send someone in a Skype > chat, I can not see any characters I am typing. I'm not sure > Ctrl+A works to select what I've typed, either. Sometimes, on > subsequent messages to the same person, things work normally. > Sometimes though, JAWS starts using "Type a message here" for the field name > instead of saying the person's name as I scripted it to do. > At such a time, JAWS also considers the field a "document" instead of an > edit box. > > I have discussed this issue extensively with Freedom Scientific and have > also performed numerous experiments relating to this. My conclusions from > all this are as follows: > > 1. The first-message problem occurs with or without my scripts. > > 2. It only happens on Windows 8.1 as far as I know. > > 3. It may also be restricted to high-resolution laptops with above-average > DPI settings. > > 4. The occasional non-first-message problem is caused by a Skype anomaly > whereby the edit control first says to JAWS that it is a RichEdit control > but later says it is a UIA document instead. This may not be related to the > first-message problem. > > I have not found a reliable way to fix this problem via scripting, though > since I can sometimes get the box to work better after the first message by > disabling my scripts, I suspect scripts can at least impact the second > issue. > > On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 11:57:23AM -0400, Diana Brent via Skypeenglish > wrote: > I am not new to computers, but this is new to me. I have JAWS 15, and latest > version of Skype on Windows 8, but am running Classic Shell on top. Have > checked Accessible mod, and compact view. When I type into a message text > field, JAWS speaks the text, and my husband says it is on the screen, but it > does not appear on my braille display or when I use arrows to navigate in > it. I can highlight and cut or delete, but can't tell what I am doing. When > I read my messages back after sending I do see the text. > > Diana > > Diana Brent > Sent from my BrailleSense OnHand > 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://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > 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://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > 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://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list [email protected] http://lists.tffppodcast.com/listinfo.cgi/skypeenglish-tffppodcast.com
