JAWS, Unigram: Script revision 135 released, just to make the scripts work with Unigram versions that do not come through the Microsoft app store. No other functionality changes. https://www.dlee.org/unigram/

JAWS, Teams: Script revision 204 released at https://www.dlee.org/teams/ to address two issues quickly:
* Contact names read again for Insert+T on chats in Teams 1.4.00.1161.
* Contact names read during navigation through the Contacts grid in the Calls app.

A reminder to run the installer rather than using BX Update if you are not already running revision 202. If you are running revision 202 now, either update method is ok.

JAWS, Slack, beta: Beta script revision 102 is posted. Installer link at https://www.dlee.org/updates/jfw_slack.exe and docs with release notes at https://www.dlee.org/updates/slack.htm#hist

I welcome feedback on this but have not posted it as a formal release because I think it can be chatty during navigation through conversation history. Here's what's good and not so good about it.

Good: Typing indicators and automatic incoming chat announcements for channels and DM, beeps instead of announcement of incoming messages when focus is in history so you can read history during a busy chat, better at not losing typed characters in an edit box, Insert+Z speaks as expected, and a few more fixes.

The question marks: Inconsistent or absent typing indicators and incoming message announcement in an open reply thread, extra speech or beeps during navigation through conversation history from time to time.

I welcome thoughts on whether this is good enough to post as a replacement for the latest formal release, revision 88.

JAWS, Dixa: Script revision 54 posted at https://www.dlee.org/dixa/ for users of Dixa 3.7.2.590, DO NOT use this update with older Dixa versions. Changes:
* The sequence [ P clicks the Phone icon, which is also named as you arrow past it in virtual view.
* The Availability button is labeled in a way that also works in braille.
* Some features that Dixa now supports natively are removed from the scripts.
* The scripts are translatable into other languages if necessary.
* Other updates as shown at https://www.dlee.org/dixa/#hist

JAWS, Dixa: I posted revision 55 of the scripts last night, just to add documentation of how to exit Dixa via the keyboard because this changed at some point and was formerly not possible. No other changes since revision 54. https://www.dlee.org/dixa/

NVDA, Skype, Virtual Audio Cable (VAC): I have updated these two of my add-ons to be compatible with the beta of NVDA 2021.1 that was recently released. I expect these and any other of my add-ons I update to remain compatible with NVDA 2021.1 when it comes out formally for use. Note that I updated the add-on for VAC 4.60 and later, but not the older one for older VAC versions.

Direct link to Skype add-on: https://www.dlee.org/skype/NVDA/skype.nvda-addon

Link to VAC documentation that includes an add-on download link: https://www.dlee.org/vac/NVDA/

NVDA, TeamTalk: I have updated my add-on for compatibility with NVDA 2021.1 beta. https://www.dlee.org/teamtalk/NVDA/

Note that so far I have not had good luck getting others to test this under the NVDA beta because I don't know that many people that are using it. Comments and reports welcome.

JAWS, Microsoft Teams: Script revision 208 posted: Insert+T more often includes chat participant status (Teams keeps changing how these are shown!), and call time stays up to date in an active call or meeting window. https://www.dlee.org/teams/

JAWS, TeamTalk: Script revision 278 released for classic clients up through 5.8.0. This is fairly major, so please read the release notes for details. The script installer download link is as usual in the same document. Direct link to revision history: https://www.dlee.org/teamtalk/classic/#hist

JAWS, TeamTalk Classic: Heads up, the next script release will remove some keystrokes that already have alternatives, and change a few more, to avoid current and future collisions with TeamTalk itself among other reasons. There will not be any lost functionality. Please read https://www.dlee.org/teamtalk/keytran.htm for details before installing the next script release, which I have not released yet. A link to this document will of course also appear in the script release notes when I send a release out. At this writing, the document is a draft and may change before final release, which is why there is a timestamp and not just a date in its top-level heading.

JAWS, TeamTalk Classic: Script revision 294 is released at https://www.dlee.org/teamtalk/classic/

After much work hammering out the interface, I am done tweaking the TeamTalk classic script keystrokes. The primary focus of this update is to stop interfering with current and possible future TeamTalk keystrokes. There are also other minor items included, all listed in the revision history

Also, an apology: If you read https://www.dlee.org/teamtalk/keytran.htm yesterday as I suggested, read it again because a lot had to change before I could make everything work well. The script release notes of course also point to that document.

General, JAWS Alert Manager (JAM): Revision 86 released at https://www.dlee.org/jam/ in time for use with this year's virtual conventions:
* Means to spell alerts.
* No more repeat of first/last alert when next/previous navigations encounter an end of the alert store.
* Better verbiage when alert announcement is silenced or unsilenced.
* Addition of a command sequence that may fix some script loading problems under Chrome.

General, JAWS Alert Manager (JAM): In case this is useful, here's how I handle busy Zoom meetings. This can completely avoid the need to navigate chat messages in Zoom itself, and can also permit reading of chat messages even after the meeting is over.

Make JAM silence alerts with JAWSKey+Slash then S. Alerts then click quietly as they arrive, so I can examine them if I wish.

Use JAWSKey+Slash then R to let JAM shorten alerts as much as possible on review.

If I want all Zoom alerts to be stored, I stay out of the Zoom window as much as possible and just review the alerts as I can with JAM. Leaving the Zoom window in focus would prevent most of them from reaching JAM.

If I want to include chat messages in the store and possibly answer them now and then, I leave the Participants panel in Zoom open when I am staying out of Zoom.

If I find, in my JAM store, a chat message I want to answer, I write the answer in Notepad so I can quickly post it without causing messages to fail to go into the JAM store.

NVDA, TeamSpeak: The TeamSpeak add-on is finally ready for NVDA 2021.1. The delay was because I continue to have the unexplained inability to use this add-on in a portable NVDA copy; it only works for me in an actual local installation.

Preferred link - docs from which a download link can also be found: https://www.dlee.org/teamspeak/NVDA/
Direct add-on link: https://www.dlee.org/teamspeak/NVDA/teamspeak.nvda-addon

General, bio: Eyes On Success recently interviewed me about my volunteer and professional scripting work and how I came to be a scripter and a software creator in general. That interview is posting today. http://www.EyesOnSuccess.net/eos_2130_podcast.mp3

JAWS, Skype: Script revision 194 released at https://www.dlee.org/skype/ :
* If characters were lost as you typed into a chat or SMS window, this shouldn't happen anymore.
* Very long messages are not cut short in split-window view, and they don't say "region" either.

General, bio: https://www.dlee.org/readouts/ is now a perpetually current index of audio articles that, until today, were not well known, that I have written over the past few months to explain various elements of my beliefs and philosophy. readouts/000 explains how these work and why I call them readouts. More may appear from time to time, and many tend to have a Christian bent.

We need and may not e'er agree,
For you are you, and I am me.
:-)

TeamTalk, TTCom: Revision 1234 is finally posted, with at least 17 updates. Release notes: https://www.dlee.org/ttcom#hist (download link also found there)

Updates include better support for wide terminals, File and Account command changes, gender identification and status message support, a few fixes, and more documentation.

General, Clubhouse, PSA: I hear in the blind community that Clubhouse will become Shortcut in September. True and false. The Clubhouse project management tool is renaming. But this is because the Clubhouse audio app is so popular now. The audio app is keeping its name. Reference: https://clubhouse.io/blog/clubhouse-changing-our-name-to-shortcut/

JAWS, Skype: Script revision 197 posted at https://www.dlee.org/skype/
Features include [ B for reading Skype Credit balance and a few fixes to chat handling.

Heads up, I expect the next script release, not this one, to run alongside the Vispero JAWS scripts instead of replacing them. That will also include raising the minimum JAWS version from 17.0 to 2018. This current release should be the last release before I do that.

NVDA, PSA: There is now a rapidly budding, searchable source for NVDA add-ons at https://nvda-addons.org

I see 286 add-ons so far, and I think this is its first day of official service. You can look for add-ons by name, words in description, or other criteria. There is also a newsletter option for receiving notification of updates.

This is not my project; I'm just advertising it; and it looks cool to me. A few things are still being worked out, such as publication dates for some add-ons that say 1970 until updated.

Advertisement sent recently to the NVDA mailing list, including many more details: https://nvda.groups.io/g/nvda/message/86951