using slack with Jaws

Chamandeep Singh Grover

25 Jun 2018 25 Jun '18

10:08 a.m.

Hi, A few weeks ago I asked about Skype for business and thank you to all those who responded, but there has now been a change and we are moving to Slack. My immediate thoughts about it is that although it is accessible, it is not very usable. There is a lot going on and too much clutter. I would be interested to hear any tips/advice on how other people get around it? Many thanks for your advice. Kind regards, Chamandeep Singh Grover

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Katherine M. Moss

25 Jun 25 Jun

10:30 a.m.

The best advice I can provide is to be patient with it. It does work, For I know this because I've used this in the past, I never liked it very much. You'll get used to it, eventually. I find it using it on mobile makes things a lot easier. Sent from Ninehttp://www.9folders.com/ ________________________________ From: Chamandeep Singh Grover Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 06:08 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] using slack with Jaws Hi, A few weeks ago I asked about Skype for business and thank you to all those who responded, but there has now been a change and we are moving to Slack. My immediate thoughts about it is that although it is accessible, it is not very usable. There is a lot going on and too much clutter. I would be interested to hear any tips/advice on how other people get around it? Many thanks for your advice. Kind regards, Chamandeep Singh Grover _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org

Andrew Hodgson

12:55 p.m.

Hi, The thread on Skype for Business went into discussing Slack, unfortunately it isn't a good experience. Using the mobile app is probably the best way at the moment especially for notifications. The web interface works for me but I have to read conversations from the bottom up, as we pay for Slack where I work which gives a very long history. The other thing is that threads really cause me problems, so I don't use them, which annoys my co-workers. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Katherine M. Moss [KMoss@WinterHillSolutions.com] Sent: 25 June 2018 11:30 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: using slack with Jaws The best advice I can provide is to be patient with it. It does work, For I know this because I've used this in the past, I never liked it very much. You'll get used to it, eventually. I find it using it on mobile makes things a lot easier. Sent from Ninehttp://www.9folders.com/ ________________________________ From: Chamandeep Singh Grover Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 06:08 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] using slack with Jaws Hi, A few weeks ago I asked about Skype for business and thank you to all those who responded, but there has now been a change and we are moving to Slack. My immediate thoughts about it is that although it is accessible, it is not very usable. There is a lot going on and too much clutter. I would be interested to hear any tips/advice on how other people get around it? Many thanks for your advice. Kind regards, Chamandeep Singh Grover _______________________________________________ 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

Chris Nestrud

12:59 p.m.

There are some keyboard shortcuts for moving between messages and switching conversations. I've found that turning virtual mode off and treating it like its own application with somewhat unintuitive hotkeys works alright. Agreed that mobile is a better experience at least on iOS. Chris On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 12:55:39PM +0000, Andrew Hodgson wrote:

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Hi,

The thread on Skype for Business went into discussing Slack, unfortunately it isn't a good experience.

Using the mobile app is probably the best way at the moment especially for notifications. The web interface works for me but I have to read conversations from the bottom up, as we pay for Slack where I work which gives a very long history. The other thing is that threads really cause me problems, so I don't use them, which annoys my co-workers.

Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Katherine M. Moss [KMoss@WinterHillSolutions.com] Sent: 25 June 2018 11:30 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: using slack with Jaws

The best advice I can provide is to be patient with it. It does work, For I know this because I've used this in the past, I never liked it very much. You'll get used to it, eventually. I find it using it on mobile makes things a lot easier.

Sent from Ninehttp://www.9folders.com/ ________________________________ From: Chamandeep Singh Grover Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 06:08 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] using slack with Jaws

Hi, A few weeks ago I asked about Skype for business and thank you to all those who responded, but there has now been a change and we are moving to Slack. My immediate thoughts about it is that although it is accessible, it is not very usable. There is a lot going on and too much clutter. I would be interested to hear any tips/advice on how other people get around it?

Many thanks for your advice.

Kind regards, Chamandeep Singh Grover _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org

Ryan Shugart

6:29 p.m.

Andrew/anyone who wants to chime in, has anyone tried Teams and if so how does it compare to Slack accessibiliitywise? Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson Reply-To: Blind sysadmins list Date: Monday, June 25, 2018 at 5:56 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: using slack with Jaws Hi, The thread on Skype for Business went into discussing Slack, unfortunately it isn't a good experience. Using the mobile app is probably the best way at the moment especially for notifications. The web interface works for me but I have to read conversations from the bottom up, as we pay for Slack where I work which gives a very long history. The other thing is that threads really cause me problems, so I don't use them, which annoys my co-workers. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Katherine M. Moss [KMoss@WinterHillSolutions.com] Sent: 25 June 2018 11:30 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: using slack with Jaws The best advice I can provide is to be patient with it. It does work, For I know this because I've used this in the past, I never liked it very much. You'll get used to it, eventually. I find it using it on mobile makes things a lot easier. Sent from Ninehttp://www.9folders.com/ ________________________________ From: Chamandeep Singh Grover Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 06:08 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] using slack with Jaws Hi, A few weeks ago I asked about Skype for business and thank you to all those who responded, but there has now been a change and we are moving to Slack. My immediate thoughts about it is that although it is accessible, it is not very usable. There is a lot going on and too much clutter. I would be interested to hear any tips/advice on how other people get around it? Many thanks for your advice. Kind regards, Chamandeep Singh Grover _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org

Glen Gordon

6:48 p.m.

Ryan, I'm extremely impressed with the accessibility of Teams on Windows across multiple components of the app. It's very clear that lots of attention got paid to detail. But in order to realize just how good the accessibility is, one must toggle off the virtual cursor and let the app guide you. That's where teams really seems to shine. That combined with knowing a handful of hotkeys makes Teams quite usable and gives it a feel very much like a standard Win32 desktop app. A couple of us have had similar positive results, so it's not just me. In the interest of full disclosure, this has been in a test environment and use in real life may show off accessibility issues that we've not yet seen. --Glen Glen Gordon VFO | Vice President & Chief Technology Officer 11800 31st Court North, St. Petersburg, FL 33716 T 727-299-6230 ggordon@vfo-group.com www.vfo-group.com -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Shugart Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 1:29 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: using slack with Jaws Andrew/anyone who wants to chime in, has anyone tried Teams and if so how does it compare to Slack accessibiliitywise? Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson Reply-To: Blind sysadmins list Date: Monday, June 25, 2018 at 5:56 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: using slack with Jaws Hi, The thread on Skype for Business went into discussing Slack, unfortunately it isn't a good experience. Using the mobile app is probably the best way at the moment especially for notifications. The web interface works for me but I have to read conversations from the bottom up, as we pay for Slack where I work which gives a very long history. The other thing is that threads really cause me problems, so I don't use them, which annoys my co-workers. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Katherine M. Moss [KMoss@WinterHillSolutions.com] Sent: 25 June 2018 11:30 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: using slack with Jaws The best advice I can provide is to be patient with it. It does work, For I know this because I've used this in the past, I never liked it very much. You'll get used to it, eventually. I find it using it on mobile makes things a lot easier. Sent from Ninehttp://www.9folders.com/ ________________________________ From: Chamandeep Singh Grover Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 06:08 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] using slack with Jaws Hi, A few weeks ago I asked about Skype for business and thank you to all those who responded, but there has now been a change and we are moving to Slack. My immediate thoughts about it is that although it is accessible, it is not very usable. There is a lot going on and too much clutter. I would be interested to hear any tips/advice on how other people get around it? Many thanks for your advice. Kind regards, Chamandeep Singh Grover _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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

Jason White

9:59 p.m.

Thanks, Glen - this motivates me to test Microsoft Teams further, as it is available in my work environment. -----Original Message----- From: Glen Gordon Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 2:48 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: using slack with Jaws Ryan, I'm extremely impressed with the accessibility of Teams on Windows across multiple components of the app. It's very clear that lots of attention got paid to detail. But in order to realize just how good the accessibility is, one must toggle off the virtual cursor and let the app guide you. That's where teams really seems to shine. That combined with knowing a handful of hotkeys makes Teams quite usable and gives it a feel very much like a standard Win32 desktop app. A couple of us have had similar positive results, so it's not just me. In the interest of full disclosure, this has been in a test environment and use in real life may show off accessibility issues that we've not yet seen. --Glen Glen Gordon VFO | Vice President & Chief Technology Officer 11800 31st Court North, St. Petersburg, FL 33716 T 727-299-6230 ggordon@vfo-group.com www.vfo-group.com -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Shugart Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 1:29 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: using slack with Jaws Andrew/anyone who wants to chime in, has anyone tried Teams and if so how does it compare to Slack accessibiliitywise? Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson Reply-To: Blind sysadmins list Date: Monday, June 25, 2018 at 5:56 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: using slack with Jaws Hi, The thread on Skype for Business went into discussing Slack, unfortunately it isn't a good experience. Using the mobile app is probably the best way at the moment especially for notifications. The web interface works for me but I have to read conversations from the bottom up, as we pay for Slack where I work which gives a very long history. The other thing is that threads really cause me problems, so I don't use them, which annoys my co-workers. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Katherine M. Moss [KMoss@WinterHillSolutions.com] Sent: 25 June 2018 11:30 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: using slack with Jaws The best advice I can provide is to be patient with it. It does work, For I know this because I've used this in the past, I never liked it very much. You'll get used to it, eventually. I find it using it on mobile makes things a lot easier. Sent from Ninehttp://www.9folders.com/ ________________________________ From: Chamandeep Singh Grover Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 06:08 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] using slack with Jaws Hi, A few weeks ago I asked about Skype for business and thank you to all those who responded, but there has now been a change and we are moving to Slack. My immediate thoughts about it is that although it is accessible, it is not very usable. There is a lot going on and too much clutter. I would be interested to hear any tips/advice on how other people get around it? Many thanks for your advice. Kind regards, Chamandeep Singh Grover _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org

Andrew Hodgson

9:37 p.m.

Hi, At my previous workplace I used it but it was last year before I moved. I didn't have huge success with the app on Windows, but was probably using it wrong. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Shugart Sent: 25 June 2018 19:29 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: using slack with Jaws Andrew/anyone who wants to chime in, has anyone tried Teams and if so how does it compare to Slack accessibiliitywise? Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson Reply-To: Blind sysadmins list Date: Monday, June 25, 2018 at 5:56 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: using slack with Jaws Hi, The thread on Skype for Business went into discussing Slack, unfortunately it isn't a good experience. Using the mobile app is probably the best way at the moment especially for notifications. The web interface works for me but I have to read conversations from the bottom up, as we pay for Slack where I work which gives a very long history. The other thing is that threads really cause me problems, so I don't use them, which annoys my co-workers. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Katherine M. Moss [KMoss@WinterHillSolutions.com] Sent: 25 June 2018 11:30 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: using slack with Jaws The best advice I can provide is to be patient with it. It does work, For I know this because I've used this in the past, I never liked it very much. You'll get used to it, eventually. I find it using it on mobile makes things a lot easier. Sent from Ninehttp://www.9folders.com/ ________________________________ From: Chamandeep Singh Grover Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 06:08 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] using slack with Jaws Hi, A few weeks ago I asked about Skype for business and thank you to all those who responded, but there has now been a change and we are moving to Slack. My immediate thoughts about it is that although it is accessible, it is not very usable. There is a lot going on and too much clutter. I would be interested to hear any tips/advice on how other people get around it? Many thanks for your advice. Kind regards, Chamandeep Singh Grover _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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

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