[Colorado-Talk] Shutting Up Join/Leave Announcements in Zoom

[Dan Burke]

You should keep in mind that if you want to do other things with your
computer while on a Zoom call, the Insert-S option won't be useful to
you at all, because you are temporarily setting your speech to "None."
If you try to alt-tab to another app, you get nothing. Your only
choice with NVDA is the option Cutis detailed in his last message.


On 7/23/20, Curtis Chong via Colorado-Talk <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Greetings:
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> Here is a procedure that you can use in NVDA to quiet the alerts about
> people leaving or joining the meeting. It essentially involves adding three
> expressions to NVDA's speech dictionary.
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> 1.            Press NVDA with n to enter the NVDA menu
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> 2.            Down arrow to Preferences, press right arrow, down arrow to
> Speech Dictionaries, and press Right arrow again to highlight Default
> Dictionary. Press Enter to open it.
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> 3.            Add an entry to the dictionary. In the Pattern field, which
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> the first field, enter the following string without the quotes: "^alert$".
> Do not enter anything in the replacement field.
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> 4.            Now, press Tab four times to get to a radio button which will
> say "Anywhere". Arrow down until you get to the Regular Expression radio
> button. Tab to Okay and press Enter.
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> 5.            Repeat steps 3 and 4, adding the following two expressions
> (minus the quotes):
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> "^(.+) has (.+) the meeting$" and
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> "^(.+) have (.+) the meeting$"
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> 6.            Now, press the Okay button to save your additions to the
> dictionary.
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> Cordially,
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> Curtis Chong
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