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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Hi Sean:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>If you update the Pro Scripts from Hartgen Consultancy, the excessive and unwanted verbiage goes away Press JAWSKEY h and Enter on the Check for Updates link.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Cordially,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Curtis Chong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sean McMahon via NFBCS<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 26, 2026 11:37 AM<br><b>To:</b> NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Sean McMahon <sean.mcmahon.dc@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NFBCS] Lately Zoom with JAWS 2026 are to verbose when announcing buttons and controls<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Thanks, Doug and Curtis for your suggestions for your information. I am currently using the jaws pro scripts. I got these at some point back when I wanted to have the ability to toggle alerts off I think they might have finally migrated that to main jaws functionality either way, there is a configuration line of for help balloon and I didn’t know that affected this I was looking for control ID because that was the text I was hearing thank you so much and I’ll try this suggestion.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id=ms-outlook-mobile-body-separator-line><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id=ms-outlook-mobile-signature><p class=MsoNormal>Get <a href="https://aka.ms/o0ukef">Outlook for iOS</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="98%" align=center></div><div id=divRplyFwdMsg><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org> on behalf of Doug Lee via NFBCS <nfbcs@nfbnet.org><br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 26, 2026 12:13:52 PM<br><b>To:</b> NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Doug Lee <dgl@dlee.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NFBCS] Lately Zoom with JAWS 2026 are to verbose when announcing buttons and controls</span> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>This approach makes sense. I rarely use Zoom, but I saw this issue last<br>week and realized that the unwanted text is assigned to the UIA Help and<br>MSAA AccHelp properties of accessibility elements in the Zoom<br>accessibility trees. Glad to hear this should be fixed internally at<br>some point.<br><br>On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 09:47:22AM -0700, Curtis Chong via NFBCS wrote:<br> Greetings:<br><br><br> I believe I have a temporary fix for your problem short of having to<br> purchase scripts from Hartgen Consultancy.<br><br><br> Here is a procedure which assumes you are using JAWS without the Zoom<br> Pro scripts from Hartgen Consultancy.<br><br><br> 1. Get into the Zoom Workspace program, but do not start a meeting or<br> anything like that.<br> 2. Press the JAWSKEY along with the number 6 to bring up the JAWS<br> Settings Center. Tab once to focus on the Tree view.<br> 3. Arrow down in the Tree View until you reach JAWS Verbosity, which<br> should be reported by JAWS as being “closed.”<br> 4. Press Right Arrow to open this.<br> 5. Arrow down once to hear what level is set for Speech Verbosity. For<br> most folks, this is stated as Beginner. Mine is set to<br> Intermediate, but that doesn’t really matter.<br> 6. Arrow down once to Configure Verbosity Levels, which JAWS will<br> report as being “closed.” Press Right Arrow to open this branch of<br> the tree.<br> 7. Assuming you are at the Beginner verbosity level, Arrow down once<br> to hear “Beginner...”.<br> 8. Do not press Enter on this. Press the Spacebar instead. You should<br> now be in a list of 24 items.<br> 9. Press the letter h to focus on Help Balloon, which JAWS will report<br> as being checked. Press Space to uncheck this.<br> 10. Tab to and activate OK for as many times as you need to in order to<br> exit JAWS Settings.<br><br><br> This should do the trick and save you lots of aggravation during your<br> Zoom meetings.<br><br><br> Cordially,<br><br><br> Curtis Chong<br><br><br><br>-- <br>Doug Lee dgl@dlee.org <a href="http://www.dlee.org">http://www.dlee.org</a><br>"When your best-laid plans have turned to dust, vacuum!"<br>- Whoopi Goldberg <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>NFBCS mailing list<br>NFBCS@nfbnet.org<br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org</a><br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFBCS:<br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/sean.mcmahon.dc%40gmail.com">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/sean.mcmahon.dc%40gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>