Lol. Some of you folks are treating this like Microsoft hates us all...hint: they don't. I can see their reasoning of why they don't want to support skype 8, seriously, bare with me, it's probably something a person about to report MS to the ADA hasn't thought of yet. You have more constant ever-changing platforms than ever now, especially Apple for that matter. So every time there's something new it has to be added into all five distributions of Skype. Fr om a business standpoint, that's impractical, though certainly nothing is stopping them from hiring a team of contract developers for each platform, ready and willing to develop the version on their own respective platform and not having to worry about all of them at once. But they won't, probably to save money I guess. Skype8 accessibility has gotten better. Is it as good as 7? No, not yet at least. But is is a bit more usable? Yes. Where it falls short is that lack of native support for each platform, so the app is subject to the constraints of each platform, and VoiceOver sucks at dealing with those kinds of apps. And it isn't getting any better since VoiceOver can't be scripted. So no, Microsoft certainly does not deserve to be reported to the ADA, and the person who actually tried that is simply delusional.
First of all, the ADA has been soft at work in this day and age, so you're probably more likely to win the loddo than to actually get a response and some action from them. Lol!
Second, seriously? Seriously. You're really gonna play the entitled blindy card? Here's where I'll stress the importance of accessibility vs usability. Are all the page elements labeled? Yes. Can you control the program accessibly? Yes. Can you control it as easily? No, but it's still accessible, right? Here's where we draw the line. The program is accessible but not as efficient. Ideally, the interface should be accessible and efficient. But the reality is that it isn't, because of platform constraints plus the inability for web apps to ever truly be native. Hey if anyone deserves to be reported to the ADA it's Apple, and I don't even think what they're doing qualifies for a report. Their lack of regard for voiceover on the mac for the last two major versions...or should I say update patches because the mac itself isn't getting much love anyhow. the inability for Voiceover to be scripted *if a screenreader isn't scriptable, you've already lost me.* But even on IOS it's been stagnating, and now we have them removing touch ID, truly not giving two shits about the consumers. Well, at least not the blind braille-using consumers especially since the ability to use the phone without taking it out of your pocket is a big deal, and now you're forced to look at the phone. But they've made it clear they don't care about the customers, look at all the things they've removed years before everyone else. Rather than improving Bluetooth, they've made their own proprietary chipset. They lock you into stuff that's theirs and theirs alone. Something tells me once the iPhone goes fully wireless that iTunes for windows won't be a thing. It's a mystery to me how some people are still riding this train that's bound to go off the rails, and still trolling the people who object to one or two of Apple's ways. This is so, so far off from what Steve Jobs wanted Apple to be. Oh yeah and where's our open source facetime god damn it! Oh that's right, it won't happen anymore because you used proprietary standards and refuse to release it as open source, against Jobs's will. Yeah ,we remember.
Anyway, back to Skype 8. Lol!