Re: Microsoft teams and VO, will it work together?

2023-10-29 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Sorry one more point on Teams, with the Macintosh turn off cursor tracking for best results. There are a few places where a pop-up gets triggered by a focus event to bring up a menu. Specifically, the Name tag in a conversation will pop up choices of Call / Private Chat /who knows what else

Re: A question about accessibility of Microsoft teams on an M2 MacBook Pro, 2022

2023-10-29 Thread Jonathan Cohn
There are two versions of Teams, so it gets a little confusing. The business version integrates into One Drive and has good accessibility features including AI based auto transcriptions. Teams on Windows is making a transition from an Electron App to a WebView2 app. I have no idea how

Re: Microsoft teams and VO, will it work together?

2023-10-24 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
Attending a meeting should be relatively easy, as you need only interact with the meeting controls rather than the larger Teams application. > On Oct 23, 2023, at 12:49, Mohamed Fayed wrote: > > Yes. I use it both on iPhone and on Mac OS. > I find the web version more res

Re: A question about accessibility of Microsoft teams on an M2 MacBook Pro, 2022

2023-10-24 Thread 'jason' via MacVisionaries
Try these resources:https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/keyboard-shortcuts-for-microsoft-teams-2e8e2a70-e8d8-4a19-949b-4c36dd5292d2https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/basic-tasks-using-a-screen-reader-with-microsoft-teams-538a8741-f21b-4b04-b575-9df70ed4105dNote that version 2

Re: A question about accessibility of Microsoft teams on an M2 MacBook Pro, 2022

2023-10-24 Thread Julie Rattray
Hi, It is accessible but I find it fairly clunky if I am honest I find using Teams on the iPad more intuitive but the MacBook versions will work but you need to spend some time playing with the screens etc and practice navigating. I think a while ago someone posted a link to a help doc from

Re: Microsoft teams and VO, will it work together?

2023-10-23 Thread Gabe Griffith
Hi, I've used teams in the windows and the iOS modes. I personally find the iOS platform to be much easier to comprehend and navigate. It will be laid out with the tabs across the bottom as with most apps then things like your messaging conversations, calendar events, etc will be lined up

Re: Microsoft teams and VO, will it work together?

2023-10-23 Thread Mohamed Fayed
Yes. I use it both on iPhone and on Mac OS. I find the web version more responsive than the desktop app, which is a different way to the same interface. It annoys me in navigation because of the complexity of the interface but it can be managed. The important task I find very annoying on teams

Microsoft teams and VO, will it work together?

2023-10-23 Thread Maurice A. Mines
Hi all the subject line says it. All. A monthly meeting that I attend ether in person or remotely has given notice that they are dropping Zoom and switching to Microsoft teams. Is. Anyone using teams with VO? Maurice Mines. -- The following information is important for all

A question about accessibility of Microsoft teams on an M2 MacBook Pro, 2022

2023-10-23 Thread Maurice A. Mines
Hello everyone, a meeting that I’ve been attending for a very long time. The host has decided that she wants to go in a different direction. She wants to use Microsoft teams is this even usable with voiceover? I am wanting to make certain that it is and if it’s not, how do I address

Re: Teams

2022-05-03 Thread Julie Rattray
ote: > > Hi Folks, > > would you agree Microsoft Teams is more than terrible to use on a Mac using > VoiceOver? Or am I doing something fundamentally wrong? > > I tried the shortcuts which are possible for the use with VoiceOver but most > of them didn’t work r

Re: Teams

2022-04-29 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Yeah, I have to say I vastly prefer Slack to teams. but I am able to get by with teams on my Mac. The current version does seem to have some problems with jumping to the search field. Also, the contact buttons can get in the way on the Mac if you try to tab around too much, this might be one

Re: Teams

2022-04-29 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Thanks for your respondses. Sad but probably the trueth. All the best Jürgen > Am 29.04.2022 um 16:44 schrieb Kaare Dehard : > > I have tried teams on both Mac and PC and although better with JAWS I really > think the user experience could be better. It seems counter intuitive.

Re: Teams

2022-04-29 Thread Kaare Dehard
I have tried teams on both Mac and PC and although better with JAWS I really think the user experience could be better. It seems counter intuitive. > On Apr 29, 2022, at 10:35 AM, Jessica Moss wrote: > > I’ve never had any luck with it either. I had to do a lot of playi

Re: Teams

2022-04-29 Thread Jessica Moss
to respond, I couldn’t remember what I’d done, so I gave up on it quickly. > On Apr 29, 2022, at 9:49 AM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > would you agree Microsoft Teams is more than terrible to use on a Mac using > VoiceOver? Or am I doing something fundamentally w

Teams

2022-04-29 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Folks, would you agree Microsoft Teams is more than terrible to use on a Mac using VoiceOver? Or am I doing something fundamentally wrong? I tried the shortcuts which are possible for the use with VoiceOver but most of them didn’t work reliably. What are your expeeriences regarding Teams

Re: Microsoft Teams On iPhone And Accessibility

2021-03-29 Thread Jeff Berwick
I use Teams on my iPhone everyday and it is very accessible. To get into a meeting, make sure that you are on the calendar tab—second from the right at the bottom. Then, find the meeting and the button right after the name of the meeting is labelled “Join.” Once you are in the meeting, you

Microsoft Teams On iPhone And Accessibility

2021-03-29 Thread Pete De Vasto
Hi all, I know this topic has come up before, but of course, I had no reason to care about using Teams on my iPhone at the time, so I didn’t save much of the info. Today, however, I was trying to get into a meeting on Teams using my iPhone running iOS 14.4.1, and I could not get it to work

Re: Teams.

2020-11-30 Thread 'Nancy Badger' via MacVisionaries
ray : > > I prefer teams on my iPad to anything else although it works well on the > phone too > >>> On 29 Nov 2020, at 22:04, Kerryann Ifill wrote: >> >> I’ve found that teams on the iPhone is far more reliable. >> >> On the Mac I find that

Re: Teams.

2020-11-30 Thread Julie Rattray
Hi, I use teams a lot for work now and whilst not an expert let me know if I can help at all - happy to do a practice meeting for example if that would be of use > On 30 Nov 2020, at 10:16, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > Ok, thanks for all inputs. > I will check it out then

Re: Teams.

2020-11-30 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Ok, thanks for all inputs. I will check it out then. /A > 30 nov. 2020 kl. 09:54 skrev Julie Rattray : > > I prefer teams on my iPad to anything else although it works well on the > phone too > >> On 29 Nov 2020, at 22:04, Kerryann Ifill wrote: >> >> I’

Re: Teams.

2020-11-30 Thread Julie Rattray
I prefer teams on my iPad to anything else although it works well on the phone too > On 29 Nov 2020, at 22:04, Kerryann Ifill wrote: > > I’ve found that teams on the iPhone is far more reliable. > > On the Mac I find that teams is a resource hog. > > Regards > Ke

Re: Teams.

2020-11-29 Thread Kerryann Ifill
I’ve found that teams on the iPhone is far more reliable. On the Mac I find that teams is a resource hog. Regards Kerry > On 29 Nov 2020, at 1:14 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > Just a short question. > The church I have wants us to participate in a meeting on teams. &g

Teams.

2020-11-29 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Just a short question. The church I have wants us to participate in a meeting on teams. Does Teams work best on the ac or the Iphone or Ipad? Thanks in advance. /A -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns

Use a screen reader to share your screen in Microsoft Teams - Office Support

2020-11-23 Thread Traci Duncan
> > https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-a-screen-reader-to-share-your-screen-in-microsoft-teams-55cbbb3e-1f02-4d71-ac52-7341ea6262b7 > > <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-a-screen-reader-to-share-your-screen-in-microsoft-teams-55cbbb3e-1f02-4d71-ac

Re: How I can make Microsoft teams to be accessible with voice over?

2020-11-21 Thread Steve Z.
Hi Jonathan, On my more tab I see camera, call, safe and tasks. I can chat with no problem, but when I am receiving calls, I can answer them through Skype. Anyways, as it seems Teams is not for personal use yet. Thank you all for your help. Steve > 21 Νοε 2020, 1:38 πμ, ο χρήστης «Jonathan C

Re: How I can make Microsoft teams to be accessible with voice over?

2020-11-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Well, I just tried to login to teams with a personal account from Microsoft and just got the message my organization is not yet using teams. I had heard some rumors that teams was replacing skype, but payed little attention to this . When you login to Teams on your phone, are you able to do

Re: How I can make Microsoft teams to be accessible with voice over?

2020-11-20 Thread Brad Snyder
As I said, it is my understanding that only users with corporate or institutional accounts can sign in to Microsoft Teams. Individual users, even those with Microsoft365 accounts do not have this capability at this time. - Brad - On Nov 20, 2020, at 14:22, Steve Z. wrote: Hi Brad, Do you

Re: How I can make Microsoft teams to be accessible with voice over?

2020-11-20 Thread Steve Z.
Hi Brad, Do you mean that those who do not have a Microft365 account are not allowed to use Microsoft Teams only from our mobile phone? because I’m using it on my mobile device without a problem. Steve > 20 Νοε 2020, 5:03 μμ, ο χρήστης «Brad Snyder » έγραψε: > > 1. I don’

Re: How I can make Microsoft teams to be accessible with voice over?

2020-11-20 Thread Brad Snyder
1. I don’t believe this is a VoiceOver issue with Microsoft Teams. 2. It is my understanding that a corporate or institutional account is required to sign in to Microsoft Teams. Individual users with or without Microsoft365 accounts are excluded from the ability to sign in to Microsoft

Re: How I can make Microsoft teams to be accessible with voice over?

2020-11-20 Thread Steve Z.
are not on teams yet but you can sign up for your organization” and has sign up for Teams button. “already signed up check your email for a link to start using Microsoft teams”. there is nothing in my mail though. > 15 Νοε 2020, 7:25 μμ, ο χρήστης «Jonathan Cohn » έγραψε: > > I have ex

Re: How I can make Microsoft teams to be accessible with voice over?

2020-11-15 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I have experienced the issue with notification problems but the notification window will often go away if you wait. Since I am impatient, what I do when I get stuck in the notification window is to use the close window command which ends up with me having no Teams windows open

Re: How I can make Microsoft teams to be accessible with voice over?

2020-11-15 Thread 'Kliph' via MacVisionaries
:03 AM, 'Kawal Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi Jonathan. > > Thanks so much about your explanation with to Teams. I tried using it on the > Mac some time ago and didn’t like it. It’s better on the I phone but still > kind of horrible. I’ll keep

Re: How I can make Microsoft teams to be accessible with voice over?

2020-11-15 Thread 'Kawal Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries
Hi Jonathan. Thanks so much about your explanation with to Teams. I tried using it on the Mac some time ago and didn’t like it. It’s better on the I phone but still kind of horrible. I’ll keep your message. I am not upgrading to Big Sur yet until it has got better. I use to upgrade

Re: How I can make Microsoft teams to be accessible with voice over?

2020-11-15 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hello, I use it quite often. Generally, it prefers you use the Microsoft keyboard shortcuts and not the VO ones. It sounds like you are not logged into the teams interface. There might be another window lurking around asking for your email and password. The Teams app is essentially

Re: How I can make Microsoft teams to be accessible with voice over?

2020-11-14 Thread Julie Rattray
When you open the app you normally get a very clutter screened - teams seems to work using a number of windows but bits of each can show on the main window when it opens So you have activity - which is a kind of update of all the things that have been happening in your teams Chat - which

Re: How I can make Microsoft teams to be accessible with voice over?

2020-11-14 Thread Steve Z.
m. > > > >>> On 15 Nov 2020, at 06:32, Steve Z. wrote: >>> >>> Hi list! >>> I would like to use Microsoft teams from my Mac. I downloaded And installed >>> it from the Microsoft web page. The problem is that when I open the app, I &

How I can make Microsoft teams to be accessible with voice over?

2020-11-14 Thread Steve Z.
> Hi list! > I would like to use Microsoft teams from my Mac. I downloaded And installed > it from the Microsoft web page. The problem is that when I open the app, I > get a blank screen. Like it’s not accessible with voiceover. Is there > anything I can do to make it accessible

Re: Voiceover on mac and Microsoft Teams

2020-09-25 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Mhy company started using Teams a couple years ago. It is significantly more accessible now and there are some things I can easily do on Macintosh as compared to my Windows environment. I however mostly use Teams for chats and for audio meetings/calls. My favorite keyboard shortcuts: command

Re: Voiceover on mac and Microsoft Teams

2020-09-24 Thread Julie Rattray
Hi, I have a guide which might help if you email me off list I can send to you but the Mac desktop version is not great - nor is the windows one from what I gather - but I know many sighted friends who hate the desktop versions of teams as they are not hugely intuitive - the IPAd version works

Voiceover on mac and Microsoft Teams

2020-09-24 Thread Ian Harrison
Hi All, My University is now using Teams for most learning. I was lead to believe it was accessible for Mac users, but I am not finding this to be the case. Sighted help tells me that Microsoft’s own guidance does not do what it says it should do; even using the key control modifier instead

Re: Microsoft Teams

2020-06-21 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I have to use MS Teams for quite a few things at work. I am switching consistently between the Windows, iPhone and Macintosh version. First off, when Teams creates a notification window, that is totally inaccessible on the Mac, and might also be on the Windows. IT is so bad, that the only way

Re: Microsoft Teams

2020-06-20 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
On 6/19/20 8:06 AM, 'Adrienne Chalmers' via MacVisionaries wrote: Hi all Has anyone got any advice for using Microsoft Teams with VO? I only know one other VO user who has experience of this and they couldn’t get it to work at all. I don't know what the problem might be. I've used

RE: Microsoft Teams

2020-06-20 Thread Simon A Fogarty
Do you have a skype Id/ Remember that skype doesn't really exist any longer. Teams now takes over from what skype for business was doing, It's both a chat and phone system. So try using your skype ID to log in to the teams interfface. Teams is by default an office / microsoft 365 tool, So

Microsoft Teams

2020-06-20 Thread 'Adrienne Chalmers' via MacVisionaries
Thanks. I’ve downloaded it onto my iPad. I opened it and tried to register. I gave my email address, then it asked me how I wanted to use Teams. If I click for work, then it wants an existing corporate account. If I click for family,it directs me to use Skype. Is it a question of waiting

Re: Microsoft Teams

2020-06-19 Thread Jeff Berwick
I have been using Microsoft Teams with my iPhone for several months now and find it to be quite accessible. I don’t like the chat feature as there are a lot of extra items I don’t need, but the calling feature is quite straight forward. The Windows desktop version is a tougher beast to tame

Re: Microsoft Teams

2020-06-19 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
. This was no slouch of an iMac either. The iPad version of Teams is much more usable, although I’m not near as familiar with it as with Google Meet/Hangouts or the Zoom environment. Later… Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 19

Re: Microsoft Teams

2020-06-19 Thread Julie Rattray
and that makes it easier on the desktop version So the first thing is could you use in an iPad > On 19 Jun 2020, at 13:06, 'Adrienne Chalmers' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi all > > Has anyone got any advice for using Microsoft Teams with VO? I only know one >

Microsoft Teams

2020-06-19 Thread 'Adrienne Chalmers' via MacVisionaries
Hi all Has anyone got any advice for using Microsoft Teams with VO? I only know one other VO user who has experience of this and they couldn’t get it to work at all. I just downloaded the app and it’s directing me to use Skype instead. I wouldn’t bother with it, but, ironically, it’s

Re: Ms teams

2020-03-16 Thread Julie Rattray
Fab thanks - well today I managed to set up a video chat with 13 people - on Thursday I want to do a similar session but play a video to the group whilst on teams which will involve sharing my screen I think so wish me luck > On 16 Mar 2020, at 21:50, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries >

Re: Ms teams

2020-03-16 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
There is a recorded seminar by accessibility specialists from Microsoft demonstrating the use of Microsoft Teams with a screen reader. It's under Windows, of course, but as the application is similar on the Mac, there may be useful aspects. http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/viewshow.php?showid=501

Re: Ms teams

2020-03-16 Thread Julie Rattray
020, at 07:17, Simon A Fogarty wrote: > > Hi Julie, > > Teams is an extention to sharepoint > > Yes you can add files into teams and access them through either office > online or through office on your desktop depending on which level of office > 365 > The atta

RE: Ms teams

2020-03-16 Thread Simon A Fogarty
Hi Julie, Teams is an extention to sharepoint Yes you can add files into teams and access them through either office online or through office on your desktop depending on which level of office 365 The attach file option should be under the files tab and as for type of file, We've got

Re: Ms teams

2020-03-15 Thread Julie Rattray
Thanks very useful - if I am honest not sure if the issue is really vo or just teams and me trying to get my head round it in such a hurry. > On 15 Mar 2020, at 18:03, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > When I last used Microsoft Teams on the Mac, it seemed to b

Re: Ms teams

2020-03-15 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
When I last used Microsoft Teams on the Mac, it seemed to be accessible, but I didn't work with it extensively. I've been using it under Windows recently. My understanding is that it is an Electron application, so the user interface is the same across multiple operating systems. When you're

Re: Ms teams

2020-03-15 Thread Julie Rattray
Hi, Basically because of the coronavirus the university has decided to move all teaching online - given we are a university not geared up for this and are having to literaerally do it overnight we are having to use what we have access to and one of these things is teams. So I have managed

RE: Ms teams

2020-03-14 Thread Simon A Fogarty
? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Julie Rattray Sent: Saturday, 14 March 2020 9:00 PM To: 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries Subject: Ms teams Does anyone have any experience of working with MS teams and voiceover I am trying to get to grips with it both on my Mac

Ms teams

2020-03-14 Thread Julie Rattray
Does anyone have any experience of working with MS teams and voiceover I am trying to get to grips with it both on my Mac and on the IPAd and any help welcome -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about