Hi: Plus everything that Tim said. It may be helpful to scan the activity view, ctrl+1, as that will specifically show you conversations you need to take action on, channels you were mentioned in and conversations you need to respond to etc. In the chat view (ctrl+2) there are actually two tabs with two different trees, one tree shows your recent conversations, the other shows your favorites and contact list. You can also start a new chat with someone by pressing the new chat button and starting to type in their name, although I do miss the feature in Skype where I could see if they were busy or free or what. Another thing to note is that in the box Tim mentioned where you can type a / to get a list of commands you can also type @ (the at sign) to get a list of people you recently talked to and bots your organization has subscribed to. Hope that helps to get started. There's definitely more to Teams if you're doing things like managing calendar and meetings through Teams and handling calls through the app as well. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Timothy Spaulding <spaulding@icanbrew.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 7:42 AM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Microsoft Teams help Hi Andrew, Most of what I am about to share is from memory since I haven't used Teams in a few months. You can switch between the different navigation/view area with control+ <number>; these are the items in the app bar * 1 = activity view: this shows you activity items, both chat and teams where you have been directly mentioned and/or someone has responded to something in a channel/conversation where you have posted. * 2 = Chats: this is you 1:1 conversations with another person--you can think of this as IM chats * 3 = Teams: this is where you find the different teams/channels of conversations * 4 = Calendar * 5 = Calls: (if you have this integration) For the Chat and Teams view, there is a pane (I think of the left side) that changes contents based on the navigation/view. For Chats, this would be a list of people you have had a specific Chat/IM like conversation; This is a tree view where you can have favorites pinned at the top. The Teams navigation/view is a list of Team names that can be expanded to see the different channels in that team. All Teams have a default channel named General. By default as of late 2019, JAWS will turn off the virtual cursor when in Teams; so you can use the F6/Shift F6 to navigate the larger areas--App bar, Conversation/teams area, messages area, and I think one more. The search/edit box at the top is where you can put in quick commands and you can use either / or /? To bring up a list of quick commands (not remembering the exact keystroke at present). I hope this is a little helpful. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson <andrew@hodgson.io> Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 10:19 AM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Microsoft Teams help Hi, Moving from Slack to Teams. Am getting on with the interface but wondered if anyone else was using it? I am members of a few different teams and I am struggling to work out what I need to read or not at the start of the day, i.e, unread messages. Also I am not sure exactly what is going on in the left hand pane where I can switch between teams and direct messages. Any idea of the best way of doing this? Thanks. Andrew. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org