Hi Michal,
as far as I know, the new skype for linux is an electron app. From an end-user point of view, it's just an application where
web.skype.com is embedded and that includes the required plumbing around having the audio/video/notifications working at the OS level. So yes, there is a chromium engine involved, but not in a way we can add the chromevox extension. As far as I can tell, the accessibility issues are the same we're facing with chromium/chrome web browsers. Others, including Alex, can explain better than me what is the current status of it.
wrt Skype's API, probably they just decided to stop providing such API since they have moved skype into the "cloud" (
web.skype.com), and it's true that you can use skype from any web browser of your choice. My experience so far with web skype is terrible, we use Skype at work and sometimes I'm not able to even log in, which is very disappointing. Of course I always have a backup solution, which involves using Skype on a Win/Mac OS, which is pretty unacceptable in my opinion. That said, I'd like to think that the Skype Team is already aware of the problems and that they will be addressing them as soon as possible.
Best regards,
Javi
