Which browser you use or have installed will not affect Skype 8. Skype 8 is an Electron app, and Electron is basically web content in a Chrome control that does not run inside an actual browser.

Microsoft's announcement of the September 1 discontinuation of Skype 7 (Classic) has brought us quite a bit of traffic on this list. Here are some hopefully helpful bits of info: Will Skype 7 (Classic

You might be helped by my JAWS scripts for Skype 8 at http://www.dlee.org/skype/electron/ or by my NVDA add-on for Skype 8 at http://www.dlee.org/skype/electron/skype.nvda-addon These of course work w

I do find Skype 8 to be the fastest Skype we have on Windows, but I'm not ready to say it has as many features as Skype 7 or UWP. It does report online status, when available, in the Conversations lis

I saw your question but did not have an answer for it. Someone else asked about Skype 8 and NVDA on this thread and I failed to realize that the new question was placed in your thread. Sorry for the c

I wrote a basic Skype 8 NVDA add-on a while back; it is posted at http://www.dlee.org/skype/electron/skype.nvda-addon Skype UWP is best covered by Joseph Lee's Windows 10 App Essentials, which can be

Try the correct tab in the following URL, where the tabs follow the content rather than coming first if I recall correctly: https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA12025/what-are-hotkeys-and-how-do-i-use-t

JAWS scripts for Skype 8 are at http://www.dlee.org/skype/electron/ and an NVDA add-on for Skype8 is at http://www.dlee.org/skype/electron/skype.nvda-addon The old classic Skype 7 app should still be

1. NVDA+N for the NVDA menu, then Tools, then Manage Addons. 2. Tab to "Get Addons..." and press Space to open the Community Addons website. 3. Find and activate the "Windows 10 App Essentials" link,

There are now three Skypes for Windows, one for Mac, and one for iOS. I'll focus on Windows because I think that's what you're asking about. To my knowledge, the only one with a startup sound is Skype

In my haste I forgot to thank David for posting that table in a format very easy to read, regardless of one's skill level with handling complex web pages, as many Microsoft pages tend to be. :)

No harm in making that post sticky, but keep in mind that it is simply copied from the official Microsoft web page of key commands for the Skype versions. That page is, I believe, likely to change fro

Answering at least three emails from this thread in one: To Jerry and Octavian, on Skype 7 showing Online or Away for offline contacts: When an iPhone, and possibly other mobile technology, is set up

I consider it useful to know if someone is online, and even how long it's been since a status was known, which has occasionally been possible for us to see in Skype. When a friend of mine is going thr

I think Skype 8 and Skype UWP both have pros and cons. I actually asked Microsoft's @SkypeSupport on Twitter yesterday (Tuesday) for information on the expect length of life of Skype 8, since it is cu

Skype 8.16 is the Electron version. You can run it in Windows 8 compatibility mode on Windows 10. Alt+2 brings up the Contacts list, and otherwise you can find the Conversations list by tabbing around

My only additional ideas are Do Not Disturb being on, or the sound output device being something other than expected.

Voicemails, for a long time even in Skype 7, have been showing up as part of conversations with the people they're from. You get indications of a missed event in a conversation for a voicemail just li

My best shot at that, surely incomplete, is in a list at http://www.dlee.org/skype/skype7phaseout.htm

I asked of the official @SkypeSupport Twitter account yesterday: doug_lee42:@SkypeSupport Do I understand correctly: 1. Skype 7 is being retired currently. 2. Skype 7 is not available from Microsoft.