This script provides enhancements for Skype, including:

• Automatic announcement of incoming messages.
• Automatic announcement of online status changes (such as people signing in and out).
• Automatic announcement of incoming and outgoing calls, and well as call durations.
• Automatic announcement of sound muted or unmuted.
• Automatic announcement when someone is typing a message.
• A Skype Info dialog providing access to chat and call history, voicemail, and more..

Supported Languages: English, Polish, Turkish

Minimum Version: Window-Eyes 7.5

• Added information about GWSkype.

On 4/24/2013, corange wrote:

This script, while obviously appreciated at the time, has now been replaced by the GW Connect program.

On 7/22/2011, steve244 wrote:

I especially like the dialogue box in this script that makes it so easy to manage voicemails etc received on Skype.

On 1/31/2011, KeithH wrote:

I have some new concerns. As you know, Skype5.X is now the current version. Do these scriptswork at all for Skyp5? Also, Skyp 5 has a totally different interface. The way these scripts were designed, I have a feeling that they no longer work. I haven't had time myself to test these scripts out with Skype5, but don't know if they will work on anything higher than Skype4.2. Whatever happened to those Skype Script Updates that you were going to do Jeff when time allowed when you had some apparent Vacation? I commend you in all respects, this Script is wonderful. But the point is Doug Lee is miles ahead of you. As I once mentione, action messages where the person types a forward slash, then by the word me a space than the message is read only using other products suchas Doug's scripts and such. Also, he recently did do what I've been expressing a suggestion here for a while now about announcing something about text being selected when control-A is used in chat edit boxes. And as GW Micro continues to update Window-Eyes, might not the issue of Interoperability come to the tabletop on the functionality of these scripts? Just a thought. If you or anyone else would like to respond personally by email, please do so at keithint1234@gmail.com Please address any such subjects as Skyp Script Comments. Thanks for what you've done thus far, and I hope that script development continues. Sincerely, --Keith, Window-Eyes user.

On 8/17/2010, KeithH wrote:

Hello Jeff. Great script for Skype, but there is something I'd like to see if it's possible to get working in the latest release of Skype 4.2.whatever version that is. The first thing, is that while in the main Skype edit box, it would be nice if Window-Eyes could at least let you know that when hitting control-A, that the text was highlighted. Window-Eyes seems to remain silent in that box. The second item, is that your scripts only read standard chat messages, in the form of "Jef says, Hi Keith!" Now, if you were to type: /me is happy, and your name was Jef on Skype, then that will show up as: "Jef is happy!" However, JFW is the only thing with Doug Lees scripts, and Serotek System Access, that parses this action message thing. Is there any way possible, that you're scripts could parss that information if a /me text was entered? I'd like to be able to get some feedback such as is whatever. That But it should be able to read the name of who wrote it, and whatever they entered. Your scripts don't do that, and nor does the SKype talking product. Any thoughts would be appreciated!

On 1/10/2010, tmantv wrote:

I'm happy to say, on my Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit machine, that skype 4.2 beta works with window-eyes 7.11 very well, and quite proud about that new fecility, where you can press a hot key, and see your history for everything, in a nice easy to use dialog. Great job with this one!

On 10/1/2008, AndrewD wrote:

I love it. Having Contact and History lists announced is very helpful. Text chat facilities make a huge difference to that part of Skype. It can occasionally get a bit confused if one jumps around messages.

On 7/10/2008, djpaskell wrote:

Somewhere around Line 215, in the ShowStandardHelp routine, a line something like this would be helpful: stdHelpDlg.UpdateURL = myScriptUpdateURL I never have scripts set to check for updates automatically, so I do appreciate the manual "Check for update" button provided in the Help dialog. Btw, great job!

On 7/3/2008, jamiepauls wrote:

I really appreciate the added functionality these scripts give to Skype. GW Micro's promptness in responding to user feedback on the list and updating the scripts accordingly is excellent. Keep up the good work. Thanks.

On 6/26/2008, darrell wrote:

The version of Skype I am currently running is 3.8. I have now added wineyes.exe as a program allowed to use Skype. Please feel free to refer to my article at http://blog.blindaccessjournal.com/2008/06/accessible-way-to-manage-permission-of.html for instructions. Unfortunately, in Window-Eyes 7.0 Public Beta 1, the portion of the Options dialogue used to add/remove programs permitted to use Skype is, itself, inaccessible. It will be necessary to utilize the mouse cursor and left click in order to successfully select wineyes.exe. Completion of this procedure enables the functionality of these scripts, which now work quite nicely. I am improving the rating to 4 out of 5. Ironically, even after enabling these scripts, that manage dialogue remains inaccessible. :-( Thanks, Aaron, for another great script!

On 6/25/2008, darrell wrote:

I just tried these scripts, and have a number of unfortunate observations at this time: 1. Control-Shift-Windows hotkeys are cumbersome at best. 2. Script actually caused Window-Eyes to go temporarily silent when playing with hotkeys. 3. Several errors have been shown while the script has been running. I'll try to include them specifically in subsequent comments. 4. The JAWS scripts at http://dlee.org/skype provide a great deal of hotkeys for selecting tabs and other Skype UI items; I hope we will see those enhancements in later versions of this script. No offense intended at all; just my $0.02 worth on this one. Thanks.