Ok, I said it couldn't be done, then I proved myself wrong. Sort of... I have put up another small update to the Skype 4.0 scripts that makes SkypeWatch report incoming calls. Other SkypeWatch features, like reporting incoming chats, birthdays, sign ins, etc., still don't work in Skype 4. There is still no text I can get to in the tray alerts, but for incoming calls, I'm getting enough information from the Live Conversations list to make it work.
This also means that the read-last-notification command, Alt+Shift+F9, will work to repeat the caller's name. The Skype Command system will also let you examine previous incoming calls, as in Skype 3. As part of this update, I am also making JAWS do a couple little things to ease interpretation of who is calling: If a conference is calling, JAWS will say "conference" as part of the caller's ID. You will also hear the list of participants, or some of them at least. If Skype includes an elipsis in the name, indicating that there are more participants than shown, JAWS will say "elipsis" so that people (like me) with punctuation turned off will still hear that there are more people in the conference. For SkypeIn calls from US phone numbers, JAWS will say the number like "+1 888-555-1212," not "+18885551212." This is not perfect but should be better anyway. I don't know how to help out with numbers from other countries because I don't know a consistent international way to split numbers into the right digit groups. I tried various things, including reading them as all single digits, but I didn't find a way to do that without either messing up the announcement of times or making Braille messages look really strange. This update is called 4.0c and is, as usual, at http://www.dlee.org/skype/ under the Skype 4.0 section. Enjoy. -- Doug Lee dgl at dlee.org http://www.dlee.org SSB BART Group doug.lee at ssbbartgroup.com http://www.ssbbartgroup.com "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum
