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<DIV>Hi skype users. a question. a friend of mine has had trouble
her skype won’t let her alt page up and alt page down to answer calls. now
that microsoft has said demand we use their product and accessibility for blind
be damned by ending support for GW connect’s primary skype kit and now that I
have uninstalled it, do any on list know if microsoft will offer any tutorials
or have proposed any changes in skype to honor their commitment to accessible
since for us each time skype is updated it is more and more complicated?
so questions. one How do I answer voicemails, send voice mails or call
someone not on my contacts list like the custom contact feature GW connect
had? how do I reauthorize invited contacts and how to search more eaisly
now that we are forced to use a product that is more and more difficult to use
by the blind each day. my friend’s not on this list. I think I will
propose a resolution to our state convention critical of microsoft’s seemingly
less concern for accessibility and forced us of an increasingly less accessible
product. if we don’t do something here the blind will fall further and
further behind in the digital devide. </DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>