Oh, thank you. Skype : teddybear510 Windows Live Messenger : toyol_cyber007 at hotmail.com Yahoo Messenger : puteri_kencana_dewi1 at yahoo.com.my
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Doug Lee" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 6:12 PM To: "a list for discussing skype and its use with screen access software." <skypeenglish at emissives.com> Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] new version of skype Lol, quite a thread formed here while I was in the air going from Tallinn to Amsterdam. :-) Answering a few people in one post: First, Teddy said: > Hi Doug, why you not update the scripts for skype 4 beta? In fact I do have more up-to-date scripts than I've released, but I haven't released them yet because I wrote them against betas that are also not released yet. I doubt they'd work as well with what you have, compared to the scripts on my web site for Skype 4. Bruce then put forth: > Yeah, Doug is so derelect in his duty. All he does is fly around to talk > to the Skype people in person about how to make Skype more accessible. All > he does is dedicate all sorts of time and energy to making it accessible > for all of us. All he does is put in tons of work at no charge to us and > hardly a word of gratitude from any of us. The nerve! Well, to be fair, Skype actually paid me for this particular trip. This was a contract. They also paid my air fare to Chicago a few months ago as many here may recall. No one pays me for the scripts, but I sort of chose Skype as my personal project to keep up with, and I'm happy with the way that's working. It's always more fun to maintain scripts for something I use every day anyway. :) Jim then presented an analysis of why I haven't released updated beta scripts, and it's pretty accurate and appears right below these comments of mine, so I won't copy that up here. As to his suggestion for me to script Skype for Window-Eyes, I'm not specifically against doing that, but there are a few things in the way: time is one. The fact that Window-Eyes doesn't work as well as JAWS at console screens, where I do much of my work, prevents me from using Window-Eyes except when I have a specific need; so I would not naturally be testing Window-Eyes Skype scripts while working on other things as things are now. Finally, I was under the impression that the current Window-Eyes Skype scripts were a continuing development effort. Were I to tackle Skype script development for Window-Eyes, my first move would probably be to talk to the authors of the current scripts so any direction I might take would neither uselessly duplicate effort nor upset the authors of what's already out there.
