[NFBCS] Slack questions

[Aaron Cannon]

I largely agree with Doug, except that I do find it very valuable to
switch in and out of the virtual cursor frequently, to reread parts of
messages.

Good luck. Slack has done a pretty solid job at making their apps
accessible, and while they're for sure not perfect, they are far
better than they used to be, and better than much of the competition.

Aaron

On 6/22/21, Doug Lee via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> The Right and Left arrows move to and back from the replies of a message,
> and Up and Down move among messages or replies depending on where you are at
> the time.
>
> Slack itself does not provide a way to read by character, word, etc. unless
> you use the JAWS virtual view or NVDA browse mode, which I generally don't
> recommend. In JAWS, one way to handle this is to use speech history, which
> is opened by Insert+Space H, and then reading up from the bottom of the
> displayed buffer to review the latest spoken message in detail. The NVDA
> object navigation and review commands should allow this sort of review
> there.
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 12:10:31PM -0500, NFBCS mailing list wrote:
> A team that I'm on is using Slack, and I've run into a couple of
> problems with it that weren't addressed by reading the keyboard
> shortcuts.
>
> First, how do you read replies? When someone replies to a message that
> I've sent, Slack says it "has one reply," but it does not read the
> reply to me. Pressing Enter does nothing.
>
> Second, how do you navigate by character, word, sentence, paragraph,
> etc. within a message. The arrow keys do other things. When I get a
> long message I have to listen to the entire thing over and over again,
> and I still can't tell how anything is spelled.
>
> Thanks.
>
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