Oh really? So that will wirk with the newest AIM? Can you send me the link to 
it please then? Tthanks.

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From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Singing 
Sparrow
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 12:19 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: Re: Skype For Windows: A Discovery Made

you can use miranda im or miranda ng to use aim with.

On 9/17/2015 11:17 AM, Hamit Campos wrote:
> 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
>>>>
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>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
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