This is an example of a great, great post. Mike described the problem, and more importantly, he solved it and came back to us to teach us how to do the same. When one searches the archives for a solution to a similar problem, this message will be indispensable and will save the new reader tons and tons of time and unnecessary hassle.
Great job Mike! JR -----Original Message----- From: Skypeenglish [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike DeZinno via Skypeenglish Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:27 PM To: screen readers' access to skype and its interface. Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] Autoaccepting files. Was. Re: Skype not responding Hello all, Ok, I'm here with some good news, fingers crossed! I am using windows 7 with jaws 16 and have finally gotten my Skype running the way it was almost two weeks ago before I messed up and accidently upgraded to the new version of Skype that fried my accessibility. First many many thanks to many of you in this forum whose ideas and thoughts and direct help would have not made my little victory today possible. Here is what I did step by step: I first used "C Clean" to remove Skype from my machine. I also saw on the forum where someone also recommended "Revo" for complete removals so I'm guessing that will work also. Then I think it was Steve who then gave me a direct download link to the previous generation of Skype before the problems we all have been plagued with started , which was: "SkypeSetupFull-6.21.0.104" Here is the link: http://is.gd/WXpcPb I installed it no problem. I went into Skype just to prove to me it was still not accessible and that was the case as I expected it would be since I hadn't loaded any jaws Skype scripts. Then I just installed the set of jaws scripts the forum had mentioned called: jfw-skr618a.exe which I downloaded from one of the places recommended here on the forum. I installed that next. Then I went back into Skype and had about 80% accessibility back before I even configured jaws and Skype for full accessibility. Then went into the Skype tools options menu and went all the way to the bottom to check the accessibility setting and saved that. Then I went into tools options again and just went through the list of settings to make Skype the way I prefer it to be for the way I like to use it. And low and behold I was a real Skype user again! LOL Now I must also say to the Skype power users that that isn't who I was to begin with since I haven't been using Skype all that long and for all that much social media contact, you may find that some of the oober advanced features that I have seen some of you discussing in the forum may not be back and of course I wouldn't know that until some day when I went to use them. Hopefully between now and that day someone will write a set of ultra powerful scripts for jaws! Well I can hope can't I? LOL But for now I can take and make calls, I can send and receive IM's and can read them either way. Sending files as attachments or doing recordings of calls aren't what I ever did before so I can't speak to those issues with any personal experience or authority but for now I am very pleased that I am at least back where I was before all this started. And again many many thanks to all you Good people who helped me get there. Mike, from SC At 02:54 PM 12/16/2014, you wrote: Where does that save the file to barbos? I'm guessing in the user folder. -----Original Message----- From: Skypeenglish [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michele Barbi via Skypeenglish Sent: 16 December 2014 19:52 To: screen readers' access to skype and its interface. Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] Autoaccepting files. Was. Re: Skype not responding Ok, I found out what's going on there. The Autoaccepting files is only available when Skype is set to always save files on My Skype received files, otherwise you cannot. Bye! Barbuz 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 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
