[NFBCS] Screen reader talking to everybody on Zoom

Wed Mar 8 23:55:00 UTC 2023

Hello John:

It is a rare thing indeed for a Zoom meeting to be set up such that a
participants joins the meeting with audio automatically shared. In fact, as
a person who has hosted literally hundreds of Zoom meetings, I can't even
imagine how such a thing would be set up by default. Please do let us know
what happens in the next Zoom meeting where this occurs.

Warm regards,

Curtis Chong

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Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Screen reader talking to everybody on Zoom

Thanks all for this interesting discussion. Since I started this thread I
have had a teams meeting and nobody could hear my screen reader, then a Zoom
meeting on a government zoom session, and nobody could hear my screen
reader. My guess now is that somehow that first Zoom session is set so that
screen sharing includes computer audio (not unreasonable for that meeting)
but that the audio sharing is active even when not sharing screen. It cannot
be my own zoom settings, because those would be same for all Zoom (or should
be!), so it must be the way that particular Zoom session is set up. I will
post results in a week or so when I participate in that meeting again. 

John

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I imagine you can also just start a meeting of 1 (yourself) and start
recording it.  Do your thing and save meeting and then play it back.

As long as you do not share your computer audio, their should only be your
voice.

Lewis Wood

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Hello John,

One way to test your Zoom meeting is to start a Zoom meeting on your
computer, and join the meeting with your phone. You can test how you appear
audibly to others.

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Louis Maher
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Thanks to Justin, Curtis, Brian, and Jim for suggestions. I should have been
more clear. I am using a headset and using the headset microphone. I believe
that my screen reader (NVDA actually, not Jaws) volume is set so that direct
bleed into the microphone is negligible. I am fairly sure that in some other
Zoom sessions, others do not hear my screen reader. Or maybe they are being
just too polite to tell me?? I do know that when in ViewPlus Teams meetings,
nobody hears my screen reader. They are for sure not that polite!

But I intend to ask from now on when in a Zoom session whether my screen
reader can be heard. My computer has a bad habit of moving focus to some
other window - maybe it is something I do to cause that but I have no idea
what. In any case I often need to use my screen reader to find that Zoom
window again. And since I often have a dozen windows open, my screen reader
could be really annoying for others. I guess I could just get in the habit
of muting myself and then expecting others to be patient occasionally if
input from me is needed.

This is a strange problem, and it will take a few days to be sure that it is
not more ubiquitous than I think. If it turns out that people are all
hearing my screen reader in Zoom, I'll be pretty embarrassed by all this.

Anyhow, thanks for all your help!

John

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John:

I work with many screen reader users who use Zoom, this is a common problem.
A couple of questions. First, are you using a good set of headphones? If you
are just relying on your system speakers and built-in microphone, your
fellow Zoom participants are going to hear your screen reader. Microsoft
Teams does a nice job of suppressing system audio from meetings, but Zoom
does not yet do this. If you are looking for a good headset, I highly
recommend the V7. You can purchase either a USB or USBC version from AT Guys
for around $40.
If you are using a headset and still getting speech bleed, check your Zoom
audio settings. Do this from the audio settings menu in a meeting next to
the mute/unmute button. Make sure your microphone and speakers are set
correctly. Even if things are set to use the system microphone and speakers,
sometimes setting this to your headphone microphone can help. You can also
test your audio using this menu.
Finally, and this sounds a bit silly, but check your system volume. Many
screen reader users have the volume of the speech set quite high. Even with
a headset, this high volume still causes speech bleed in a meeting. Try
turning down the volume of your speech and see if this helps. Ideally, turn
off your speech. I use a braille display and find this incredibly helpful in
Zoom meetings.
I hope these tips help. Feel free to get in touch if you need additional
info.
Thanks.
Jim

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Subject: [NFBCS] Screen reader talking to everybody on Zoom

Hello all, sometimes when I am on Zoom others can hear my screen reader and
sometimes they do not. I just do not understand why, and I cannot find any
information on how to suppress the screen reader without muting me as well.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

John Gardner
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