Yeah, agreed. Also, you hold back. You don't upgrade if you keep up the old ways. I mean it would be like me stgaying on Win 7 only because of being able to use AIM with Face Book. It kind of applies because well the AIM that works with JAWS is now old. The new 1 doesn't. Would be epic if it did, but too bad Se la vi. Excuse my miss spelling of French. Lol. But I just love that expression. So had to use it. Lol. The best solution would be in my example with AIM is to talk to those guys and ask them to take a looksy at things. I agree scripts can make things a little easyerr, but Even eric says that Scripts aren't the end all be all way. One should try and insentivize the developers to make the software work fore the blind. Ahem Power DVD fits here.
-----Original Message----- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 2:51 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Subject: Re: Skype For Windows: A Discovery Made You’re right, use what you want but why on earth do people just have to make mountains out of molehills and make things difficult? Skype is a continually evolving platform and it won’t be long before GW Connect doesn’t work with Skype, I’ve not used the utility for a good while and - for all I know - it may not even be compatible with parts of Skype now, just bit bite the bullet and have a look at the Skype Interface, its very user friendly and straight forward, actually my favourite Windows Screen Reader for Skype is NVDA so that alone shows how much the software has improved accessibility wise. You can also do further tweaking to make Skype look the way you want it to look by playing with the view shortcuts. My favourite Skype platform of all is for the Mac and the cordless phone I’ve been describing is proving a very convenient tool for those times when I’m not near a computer and wish to make and receive calls. > On 17 Sep 2015, at 4:33 pm, Peter Scanlon <sca...@tpg.com.au> wrote: > > I’m just saying what some of us use. > > P. > > > From: Dane Trethowan > Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 4:29 PM > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Re: Skype For Windows: A Discovery Made > > GW Connect was discontinued long ago, it can't even be gotten any > longer, why recommend something that doesn't exist or isn't supported > and may not even work with the later operating systems? > > > > On 9/17/2015 7:55 AM, Peter Scanlon wrote: >> Scripts make it much easier. Also I know a few people who still use the GW >> connect work around. >> >> From: Dane Trethowan >> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 4:37 AM >> To: PC Audio Discussion List >> Subject: Re: Skype For Windows: A Discovery Made >> >> Interesting, I thought we’d gone beyond using scripts for Skype now, it >> seems to me at any rate that the latest version of Skype for Windows is very >> accessible indeed, has been like that for quite some time and full credit to >> Microsoft addressing many accessibility issues. >> >> Its great that people are writing scripts but I don’t like to use them when >> I can avoid doing so as they isolate the user from the way the running App >> actually works so therefore you’re tied to one system or one Screen Reader >> and thus don’t have the knowledge of how functions are used in the App >> itself, only my opinion of course. >> >> >>> On 17 Sep 2015, at 4:33 am, brianolesen <br...@blindkom.dk> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> If you're using the scripts you can just press ctrl shift d to enable or >>> disable the dialpad. >>> >>> Brian >>> >>> -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- >>> Fra: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] På vegne af >>> Dane Trethowan >>> Sendt: 16. september 2015 19:19 >>> Til: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >>> Emne: Skype For Windows: A Discovery Made >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> For those who use Skype For Windows, I discovered that the feature to >>> generate tones whilst on a call now works, in previous versions of Skype >>> For windows getting this feature to work was problematic at best - in most >>> cases I couldn’t get the function to work at all -. >>> >>> Anyway Microsoft have certainly fixed the problem so here’s how to activate >>> the function. >>> >>> Whilst on a call use the tab key to move to the “Dial Pad” button and press >>> space, from here you can use the top row of numbers on your keyboard to >>> enter responses to automated bank systems or whatever, you can even paste a >>> string of numbers into the Edit box which comes up when the “Dial Pad” >>> button is pressed and have the appropriate tones entered for you by Skype >>> automatically. >>> >>> >>> ********** >>> Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the >>> halfwits in this world behind. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> ********** >> Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the >> halfwits in this world behind. >> >> > > -- > > ********** > Those who don't need help are prepared to help themselves > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
