[blindLaw] screen sharing with Zoom

Fri Dec 18 00:16:34 UTC 2020

To my knowledge, the screenshare feature is inaccessible to screenreader users in Zoom or other platforms.  I've heard and read that supposedly Microsoft Teams is alleged to have some form of screenshare accessibility, but I have yet to actually test this out for myself to be sure it works in any capacity.

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From: BlindLaw <blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Áine Kelly-Costello via BlindLaw
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Subject: Re: [blindLaw] screen sharing with Zoom

With NVDA I think you can use the recognise screen thing, which is NVDA+R. Guess the recognise feature in JAWS should do it as well? Assume both would also pick up whatever other random stuff is on the screen apart from the main text of the document. I have never tried it out myself. I have never been in a situation where the thing in question couldn't either be emailed to me or put into a google doc or on google drive or dropbox. Or just read out. But yeah, not ideal 

> On 17 Dec 2020, at 20:14, Shannon Dillon via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Thanks, everyone, for the info and tips.
> Shannon
>> On 12/17/20, Chang, Patti via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> One work around I have used is to have them copy all of a text based 
>> document and to paste it into the chat box.  Not sure how effective 
>> this could be if the doc is long but I have done this.
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>> From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tai 
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>> To my knowledge, the screen share feature in Zoom is inaccessible to 
>> screen reader users.
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>> From: BlindLaw <blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Shannon 
>> Dillon via BlindLaw
>> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 10:31 AM
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>> Subject: [blindLaw] screen sharing with Zoom
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>> Hi everyone,
>> Is it possible to see documents or information that is being screen 
>> shared in Zoom? Or is there an app where this is possible? My boss 
>> was trying to screen share something with me yesterday and I couldn't read it.
>> Shannon
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