[mac4theblind] Re: skype for iPhone
- From: Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:31:30 -0800
We'll see. I think they are getting better but like I say in my blog I'm not
holding my breath. 93 is not enough. They need more people to contact skype
thorugh twitter, facebook skype support and more.
On Dec 27, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
> Well I'm just hoping that 3.0.1 keeps being supported as i os undergoes
> updates.
>
> Regards
> Justin Harford
> El 27-12-2011, a las 12:09, Scott Davert escribió:
>
>> Hello all.
>> 93 users of Applevis have contacted Skype to try and let them know of
>> the various accessibility issues we have been facing as of late. As
>> far as I know, none of these fails were acknowledged, and Skype has
>> become even less user friendly to VoiceOver users since this campaign
>> has been launched. While I hold out hope that they'll one day fix
>> these issues, I still use version 3.0.1 which seems to work just fine.
>> The issue here seems to be one of sloppiness on the part of app
>> developers. Generally, when an app is developed, the developers
>> closely follow the guidelines set forth by Apple which also take
>> VoiceOver in to account. As new features are added though, it seems
>> that the guidelines are less often used, thus resulting in apps that
>> are useless to those who are blind. So far now, I just use Skype
>> 3.0.1 and wait for the unlikely event that they'll fix it.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> On 12/27/11, Justin Harford <blindstein@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Okay. You should also try out the dial pad.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Justin
>>> El 27-12-2011, a las 10:01, Sarah Alawami escribió:
>>>
>>>> I have. In fact I just wrote a blog post about it at
>>>> http://tffp.marrie.org/ramblings.
>>>>
>>>> I personally contacted skype support over twitter about this and they are
>>>> going to forward the but on to their support staff.
>>>> On Dec 26, 2011, at 11:01 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It seems like skype has been going down hill over the last year. I think
>>>>> probably now for a year and a half I have been using an old version of
>>>>> skype. Whenever I update, I find that I cannot access the dyle pad to
>>>>> call phones, or read messages in a chat.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone happen to have an idea of where this is at? Has anyone else
>>>>> noticed it? To what do we owe this change?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Justin Harford ************
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