Re: [orca-list] Skype's not accessible, but...

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Chris:

Here's a message that might help explain at least my point of view:
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/accessibility/2007-August/002036.html

Will

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 14:33 -0700, Christopher Gray wrote:
> Hi to all:
> 
> I do appreciate the suggestions on other software.  The problem is that none of 
> them are cross-platform and/or mainstream solutions.  Given my use for this, 
> Skype is the most viable, first-choice  solution.
> 
> Don't get me wrong.  I use Asterisk and would be intrigued in trying out some of 
> these other packages.  But for my business, I would be served best by far with 
> Skype.
> 
> Maybe this should be done off-list, but could somebody assist me in 
> understanding QT4 and the problems of access with it?  I've received a note on 
> the Skype Linux forum saying how they have chosen it because of its 
> accessibility hooks.  It is admitted that these hooks are not yet being used, 
> but clearly there's more than one school of thought on this.  I don;'t have the 
> background to understand fully the situation.
> 
> THanks for any assistance.
> 
> CHris
> 
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Henning Oschwald wrote:
> 
> > On Mi, Sep 05 2007, Jan Buchal wrote:
> >
> >> if we want have Free Software Accessibility then is better use some Free
> >> technology. For VOIP you can use SIP, IAX H323, but SIP is probably most
> >> of used.
> >
> > I fully agree. I recommend twinkle, which I use also by myself (aptitude
> > install twinkle). It uses a qt-based GUI by default, but if you call it
> > with -c, you get afeature-rich console interface. The speech quality is
> > rather good if you use the speex wideband codec and Twinkle also supports
> > converence calls and call redirection.
> >
> > cheers
> >
> >  Henning
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