first, the electron app kicks the win10 app to hell. I do use both apps as it currently stands, but the win10 one seems to be nowhere as polished up. as for post 91, I have even tried this before responding, sleep mode won't work with skype 8. I mean, sure it'll work, but you won't get speech feedback. and I'm pretty familiar with sleep mode, I use it more or less for all games, the only games that don't support it are swamp and RTR, so I should know this thing. if it does work, what am I missing? space-NVDA, to enter browse mode does, however, work rather nice.

indeed. As I pointed out in the Microsoft community a few days ago, something can be accessible and still be a pain to use.

I'm going to miss split window view. I personally like each conversation in its own window.

If I can sort out who I'm talking to, can review old messages and can call people/accept calls/all that jazz, as well as reading the status of people in my list, I'll probably make do.

I'm not happy about this, but I'll live with it. One thing ostensibly being fixed is a long-time security hack, so skype 8 is not just a broken, shitty app. You may not like the design, but there is some business sense going into this decision.

Here's hoping they introduce an optional split window view. That's really going to bug me, I think.

Is this the skype for win10 because I haven't been able to find a way of answering incomming calls and  there is know way to make your own key shortcuts.

as before. blind people simply can't read. skype 8 is useble. the design works like skype 7 after disabling the curser or going in to aplication mode i think it's called with nvda. just learn the damn new keys and you'll be fine to go. stop wining and complainng like you people do with evreything else and try it out for at least 15 minutes

@Draq, I wouldn't call that necessarily arrogant nor insulting. He does have a point. All us users can do if a company/person fucks up in our eyes is complain. The company/person doesn't have to do shit. They can keep going with what they wanted to do and not listen to us. (Apple has a very, very good history of this.) The major consequence of that though would be that company/person losing the user base they've gained through all those years of "hard work". But they can keep doing what they want to do if they so wish -- the users opinion doesn't really matter at all, whether you think it does or not. Plus, sometimes, that's pretty much all you an do: lay down and except it. Beyond hat there's really nothing else you can do in certain situations.

Wow! You actually.... just wow.... the nerve.....
I'll just say that this will never, never do anything. Petitions are not enforceable. Petitions have absolutely no weight. All they can do is persuade people, and if you can't persuade the lawmakers and "corporate machines" as you put it, it won't happen. Also, considering the fact that you didn't reveal your actual identity and used identity impersonation, this is more likely to ruin you in every way rather than to get attention (unless you enjoy getting disgraced by society). This is only going to make your impersonation even more public than it already is. Nice way to expose your impersonation to the entire world. Great job!

That's not entirely true about JAWS. As long as someone's using JAWS 17 or later, they can use Doug Lees' scripts. It is rather unfortunate that people on a version lower than 17 have to upgrade just to continue to use Skype though. I had the same gripe whenever new versions of MSN Messenger needed a JAWS upgrade to work properly.

Question for NVDA users: How do you answer a call? someone over on the microsoft community is asking for a blind friend. The friend is used to simply pressing a keyboard shortcut, but 8 has no such shortcut now.

does anybody know if viber is accessible? I'm looking for alternatives. the new Skype is useable but I really hate it. it takes 10 times as long to do anything and just frustrates me. apparently there is a desktop version of viber but I haven't tested it to see if it's useable. anybody got any experience?

Hi,
Okay, so guess I'm also going to have to be unpopular, but I today decided to take the plunge and update to the latest Skype, thinking that I'll give it a shot and if I don't like it, start to look for alternatives. But I was actually surprised at how well it works, I tested it with one chat and a call so far. I found it easy enough to identify the chat, go into it and read/reply to messages and with a combination of using the regular NVDA web interface hotkeys and the quick find feature, I find it faster compared to the classic version, where you have to press tab about a hundred times to get around. The split window will be missed but since I don't have that many chats, it's not the end of the world not to have it around.
As for keyboard shortcuts, that list posted above isn't particularly clear, the command given for "starting an audio call" (ctrl + shift + P) in fact also answers an incoming call and ctrl + e ends it.
It would however be nice to customise the keyboard shortcuts, as well as the ringing time before it goes to voicemail.
I'm obviously going to keep playing around with it, but so far I'm surprisingly happy, especially since I'm also rather sceptical about Microsoft products and how they bring out updates, but I feel they are actually making a reasonable effort towards accessibility these days.

What exactly does the NVDA add-on for Skype 8 do?