[NFBCS] Slack questions

[Nancy Coffman]

Does the JAWS or review cursor move to where you need it to read? 

You might be able to create a frame around where replies display and have it read automatically. I don't know if there are any scripts or add-ons for Slack. 

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> On Jun 22, 2021, at 1:03 PM, Aaron Cannon via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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