As already mentioned, did you authorize Skype to use your Microphone and camera? When I first started Skype in Mohave it acted similarly until I went to the system dialogs that came up and authorized it to use these services.
Newer versions of Skype much like Microsoft Teams, and Slack tend to use HTML interfaces that are wrapped in a browser like application. The problem with this is that panes and scrollbars are often not as navigable as in native MacOS applications. And often these Applications have several panes of information. I expect that web spots might have with some of these issues, though it is more difficult to distribute VoiceOver settings to make applications work better than it is to distribute NVDA plugins or JAWS script files. And while VoiceOver is scriptable mostly that is just getting current cursor locations and controlling speech. If you want to move the VoiceOver cursor to the first table in the third pane, you need to find it using UI Scripting and then move the mouse appropriately and then move the VO cursor to the mouse. > On Jan 8, 2019, at 7:59 PM, jean parker <radiofore...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello All: > I made the mistake of updating skype trying to resolve yet another problem it > was causing. Now it is totally nonfunctional. When I open it, it says that > skype has no windows. None of the shortcut keys work except for command 1 > which opens a totally inaccessible web site. Everything in the menus is > dimmed out. I can’t even make the thing quit correctly and have to do a > forced quit to close it. I am using the latest version of Mac OS. > I haven’t heard any complaints about skype for a while so I assumed that it > was behaving itself. Or, maybe everyone has just given up on it, a perfectly > understandable response to be sure. > Any and all ideas welcome including how to get a previous version that will > at least do something productive. > > Jean > > > > > Dr. Jean Parker, Ph.D. > Senior Research Fellow > Trans4m Center For Integral Development > Geneva, Switzerland > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
