AFAIK, and I've not double checked this for a few months...
Skype uses an Electron wrapper which means it isn't compatible
with Orca at all. MS know about this and the pleas on their forums
fall on deaf ears, so to speak. Or, they just ignore it.
It's a known issue with all Electron apps as well
That being said....you can use web skype at web.skype.com if you
want to use Skype, either use Chrome, or in Firefox set your
useragent string to Chrome.
I don't have the exact things you need to copy/paste in to hand
right now but I can attest the useragent switching trick for web
skype works.
But if ya don't wanna go through the hassle of switching a user
agent, just grab Chrome+ChromeVox or Chromium+Chromevox running
with --enable-speech-dispatcher after the chromium command.
Yeah it sucks but it's MS's program and they can do whatever they
like to it. That being said, Milosh there are other alternatives
to Skype out there that are much better for Orca friendliness than
Skyp. I've a list somewhere on my machine i can dig out if
anyone's interestedfully acc
Jace
On 03/06/18 18:39, Milos Przic wrote:
Hello group,
I and my friend tried installing Skype on Ubuntu installed on
his computer. However, it doesn't seem to work well with Orca,
as Orca doesn't read anything within the program. My friend
installed all the gnome environment stuff needed, but the
problem persists. What other packages should we install to make
Skype accessible with Orca?
Thanks to everybody in advance, and best regards!
Miloš
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