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Re: Jaws and Microsoft Teams

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From: Dean.Vasile
Date: Feb 17, 2023 7:34AM

I do not use Microsoft Teams much at all.
However, have you tried pressing?
Insert “B “?

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> On Feb 17, 2023, at 5:12 AM, Geethavani.Shamanna < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> This list may not be the right place for this question, but I would appreciate being pointed in the right direction.
>
> Jaws support for MS Teams, particularly reading chat messages, is a little patchy. When a chat/feed message arrives and the screen reader focus is in another window, Jaws simply has an alert message stating that there is a new message. It could instead read out the message text. With active meeting chats this is particularly annoying.
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> Has anyone found a workaround to resolve this issue?
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> Many thanks.
> Geetha
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