Hi everyone, Work is bringing me back to windows after 12 years or so on Linux, and it is a process just as painful as it was to move in the other direction, so far. There are some nice surprises, such as improvements to the accessibility of Office. One desktop application on Office 365 which is still giving me trouble, is Teams. It seems as difficult with Jaws as it is with NVDA, so I am wondering if anybody has scripts or plugins to recommend, as I am starting to suspect that the problem might be between the keyboard and the chair! Thanks, Fernando
Fernando, I was ambushed by Microsoft Teams also but I used the files and pod casts from Freedom Scientific to get Teams to a usable condition. There are some keyboard commands that work with Teams, so I would check out the Freedom Scientific files to begin with getting this under control. I use JAWS 2021 and JAWS 2018 for working with teams. Greg B. -----Original Message----- From: Fernando Botelho <fernando.botelho@f123.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 1:11 PM To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Office 365 scripts or plugins Hi everyone, Work is bringing me back to windows after 12 years or so on Linux, and it is a process just as painful as it was to move in the other direction, so far. There are some nice surprises, such as improvements to the accessibility of Office. One desktop application on Office 365 which is still giving me trouble, is Teams. It seems as difficult with Jaws as it is with NVDA, so I am wondering if anybody has scripts or plugins to recommend, as I am starting to suspect that the problem might be between the keyboard and the chair! Thanks, Fernando _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
Hi Fernando: I highly recommend Doug Lee’s Microsoft Teams scripts<https://dlee.org/teams/>. He’s put a lot of work into them, and they have a lot of cool features that make Teams a lot easier to work with. Most Teams users I know who use JAWS use them as well, and honestly when you get used to Teams it is actually a really powerful app to use, it just had complex UI. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Fernando Botelho <fernando.botelho@f123.org> Reply-To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 10:12 AM To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Office 365 scripts or plugins Hi everyone, Work is bringing me back to windows after 12 years or so on Linux, and it is a process just as painful as it was to move in the other direction, so far. There are some nice surprises, such as improvements to the accessibility of Office. One desktop application on Office 365 which is still giving me trouble, is Teams. It seems as difficult with Jaws as it is with NVDA, so I am wondering if anybody has scripts or plugins to recommend, as I am starting to suspect that the problem might be between the keyboard and the chair! Thanks, Fernando _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
Thanks very much guys. These are great suggestions. One more question, and this one is a bit out there: I can see myself enjoying very much some NVDA things like the quick controls of volume and rate in an intuitive interface and its plugin for NotePad++ with autocompletion. then there is a high likelihood that the Teams scripts will make Jaws a pleasure to work with in that application. probably others as well... So I ask you: is there any way to setup automatic screen reader switching depending on application? I am guessing not. So, alternatively, are there scripts somewhere that would make Jaws handle autocompletion and bookmarks well in NotePad++? Lastly, I assume that there is no central repository for Jaws scripts, but if there is one, please point me to it so I won't bother you guys too often. Thanks, Fernando
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