The very first goal I had when I started writing an NVDA Skype addon was to make NVDA announce the systray alerts for people going on and offline, calling, etc. My problem was that I saw no easy way to do it in NVDA. JAWS has a WindowCreatedEvent and a WindowActivatedEvent, but NVDA had neither. I needed an event that would fire when one of those alerts appeared, or I would have to scan the screen frequently and constantly to catch them, which is not so efficient and can miss them. It is technically possible, but my discussions with NVDA developers gave me the idea that of the two known ways to get it done, one risked NVDA incompatibilities down the line and the other would be both difficult and perhaps slow things down.
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 12:30:24PM +0100, Clare Page wrote: Hi! Given the increasing popularity of NVDA, I personally think it is well worth bothering to have an NVDA add-on created for Skype, if someone is willing to create one. I have been a full-time NVDA user for three years now, and I personally don't miss JAWS at all, especially not Eloquence, but that's another debate, and obviously we all have our own personal opinions of screenreaders and the voices they use, which are totally off-topic for this list. As for using standard Skype with NVDA, I am currently managing well with no add-on, but one thing I miss from SkypeTalking, and from the JAWS scripts when I used them years ago, was announcements of who is going online or offline or whatever, so I would certainly appreciate an NVDA add-on just for that. So I join other NVDA users in hoping that a Skype add-on will eventually be created. Bye for now, and happy skyping, whatever screenreader you use! >From Clare -----Original Message----- From: Skypeenglish [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of andrew Sent: samedi 14 d?cembre 2013 07:36 To: 'screen readers' access with skype.' Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] A question to NVDA users Hello, barbuz, The only person who can answer this is doug, himself, of course, but I'mm in a guessing mood and I'm prepared to take a guess and doug, it would be interesting to see if my thinking was right or wrong. Nvda is far inferior to jaws which has been in existence and use for many years, the eloquence voice is far superior to the nvda voices, so since there is such a difference, why bother, bearing in mind that the nvda voices I heard, exactly one year ago, sounded so strange and hard to understand, that I vowed I would never even think about getting nvda, but now, you can add ivona voices, from rnib and with these voices, especially created by rnib and a partner, ivona, nvda is now reading to me in a voice which sounds very human in its output and quality of delivery. Now there is a debate between jaws and nvda users, unrelated to skype matters, and I use both so I won't comment, but nvda is free and many more people are using it it is definitely gaining in popularity, so, doug, is barbuz right and is there grounds for optimislets hope that it will happen, one way or another, Andy.m among nvda users, regarding this question. I believe that the thinking, at the time was something like: -----Original Message----- From: Skypeenglish [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michele Barbi Sent: 14 December 2013 06:06 To: screen readers' access with skype. Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] A question to NVDA users Talking about NVDA addons for Skype, if my memory does not go wrong, Doug was at first thinking to create one, but then he realized it wasn't worth though I don't remember exactly why... Bye! Barbuz Thanks for posting to the skype english list. to contact skype support wiht any questions regarding your account email [email protected] To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To contact the list owner send a message to mailto:[email protected] and for a searchable archives page go here. http://bit.ly/64Y48 thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list [email protected] http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3462 / Virus Database: 3658/6917 - Release Date: 12/13/13 Thanks for posting to the skype english list. to contact skype support wiht any questions regarding your account email [email protected] To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To contact the list owner send a message to mailto:[email protected] and for a searchable archives page go here. http://bit.ly/64Y48 thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list [email protected] http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com Thanks for posting to the skype english list. to contact skype support wiht any questions regarding your account email [email protected] To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To contact the list owner send a message to mailto:[email protected] and for a searchable archives page go here. http://bit.ly/64Y48 thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list [email protected] http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com -- Doug Lee [email protected] http://www.dlee.org SSB BART Group [email protected] http://www.ssbbartgroup.com Time is the friend of one who is true, and the enemy of one who isn't. (02/05/2010) Thanks for posting to the skype english list. to contact skype support wiht any questions regarding your account email [email protected] To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To contact the list owner send a message to mailto:[email protected] and for a searchable archives page go here. http://bit.ly/64Y48 thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list [email protected] http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com
