Hello,

One of my coworkers finds it extremely difficult to use Skype due to the nature of the GIF images. They play incessantly and he cannot stop them. There is no mechanism to Pause, Stop or Hide the content. He has resorted to using this method to push the GIF out of the viewport:
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Thank you for your time

Jason Ament

Hello. In the latest version of Skype for desktop, currently 98.51, screen reader users are facing a major productivity issue. When opening a conversation, either from the recent chats list or by just pressing enter on a contact, keyboard navigation becomes completely unresponsive for up to 15 seconds. During this time, You can not do anything in Skype, and if you try to navigate it causes the whole program to freeze and sometimes go into not responding as well. To reproduce the bug, make sure that a screen reader such as Jaws or NVDA is running. Now, press alt plus 1 to view the list of recent chats. Press enter on any conversation, and you should see the behaviour I described above. I hope your team can address this issue as fast as possible and also make sure to test with a screen reader to prevent such major issues in the future.

Since Microsoft will prevent Skype 7 from accessing the Skype network after the 1st of September 2018, they need to enhance Skype 8's functionality to get at least some of Skype 7's functionality to it. One of those missing and crucial for the visually impaired users functions are the global hotkeys for answering and rejecting a call, and similar ones. |They should be restored to Skype 8 as they are in Skype 7. Otherwise, answering or rejecting a call for visually impaired keyboard users is practically a nightmare at the moment. Since Microsoft will prevent Skype 7 from accessing the Skype network after the 1st of September 2018, they

When the size of the text, apps, and other items is increased through Display Settings, Skype gets inconsistently scaled - for instance, at 175% level or more on 24inch monitor (or 150% level or more on 15 inch laptop), control panel at the bottom of the Skype meeting window (with buttons to make calls, share screen, etc) disappears from the view. This forces the users to work in lower zoom levels (125% or less) which may be not be ideal for some users with low vision. The same phenomenon (disappearance of control panel on Skype while in a meeting) observed when the presenter shares the screen with other audience on Skype meeting. Please consider making Skype to work consistently with different zoom levels (150% or 175%) while in meeting mode so that the control panel won't go out of sight.

hello;

I have posted these feedback on this forum before; but; can my feedback please be taken seriously for Skype 7.40; and extending support for windows 7 for visually impaired people;

1. please can support be extended for Skype 7.40; because the newer version of Skype doesn't work for visually impaired users who use assistive technology;

2. windows 7:

can support be extended beyond January 14th; 2020; for visually impaired users please; for windows 7; because windows 10; keeps causing problems for windows users who are using assistive technology software;

I would urge for my feedback to be taken seriously;

the reason I want windows 7 support extended is because; Windows 10; isn't reliable for a visually impaired user like myself; who uses assistive technology;

Kind Regards;

Tolga Karatas;

I think Microsoft has a huge chance of making new found success in the mobile industry. Hear me out, all the successful companies that offer full a full line of products has some sort of connected ecosystem that merges all services as seamlessly as possible i.e Apple* and I believe in the computing industry Microsoft still remains dominant but to get more people using the services I think they should push a new product ...a surface phone. A key to tying that into their product portfolio should be Skype. Just like Apple remains dominant with iMessage. The Surface phone should run Android to bring the power off all the apps but should have Skype as the default messenger in order to get people using it and have the ability to message other users with the phone via Microsoft account or via SMS to those not registered with Microsoft and offer video calling built right in of course as well. It should also offer the Microsoft broswer by default and Bing accessibility direct from searching the home screen. The phone should focus on bringing mid-range specs great camera fresh clean Android software but with all the Microsoft apps and services at the forefront and make them fun!