{"id":157,"date":"2005-06-05T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-05T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottrut.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2008-12-12T13:41:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T03:41:31","slug":"reply-from-a-skype-moderator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottrut.com\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Reply from a skype moderator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok I&#8217;ve recieved a reply from a skhype moderator regarding access to the call menu in skype.<\/p>\n<p>The more blind people who post there annoyances in the skype support forum, the better for all concerned.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the reply.<\/p>\n<p>Hi there!<br \/>\nChris Westbrook (a blind Skype user who recently made a post here about this issue),<br \/>\nan unnamed Skype staffer and I recently had a discussion about this. This issue is<br \/>\ndefinitely known and I&#8217;m sure Skype will recognize and fix it. Again, this is a BETA<br \/>\nand the Skype staff appreciate any and all feedback to try to make it better.<br \/>\nMy suggestion to them was to make an &#8220;Accessible Mode&#8221; where the API as well as the<br \/>\nSkype client does everything without the eye-candy and better strings for text readers<br \/>\nsuch as Jaws to be able to read properly and maximize usability for disabled users.<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok I&#8217;ve recieved a reply from a skhype moderator regarding access to the call menu in skype. The more blind people who post there annoyances&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scottrut.com\/?p=157\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reply from a skype moderator<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology-related","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottrut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottrut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottrut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottrut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottrut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottrut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottrut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottrut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottrut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottrut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}