[NFBCS] Feedback welcome on a new website regarding Microsoft Teams Accessibility

[Ty Littlefield]

I'm greatful to have migrated to a company that uses Slack, so my 
information is outdated, but this issue has existed since as far back as 
2018 when I was at Vispero (I feel old, I need to stop using years and 
dates). Anyway, install teams on your phone if you can. You get the 
notifications there and can control what you get. sometimes you get 
redundant notifications but that beats spending half your day hunting 
for stuff because you wanted to visit the bathroom and make sure the day 
star still works as intended.


I also found it easier to read and review messages with the IOS teams. 
That said, 6 years is an awful lot of time for Microsoft to make me a fool.


On 8/10/2026 8:55 PM, Joe Orozco via NFBCS wrote:
>
> As someone with an irrational hatred of Teams, I appreciate the 
> website. I don’t know that Skype was ideal, but it was a hell of a lot 
> better than this cluttered monstrosity.
>
> These are things I hope will get added to the site. If I figure out a 
> cohesive way to do it consistently with JAWS, I will contribute:
>
>   * Adjusting the settings so that I don’t miss incoming messages if I
>     don’t happen to be wearing my headset. At present, I’m not aware
>     of new messages unless I go looking for them.
>   * How to easily share content. I’ve stumbled on to how to do it, but
>     I don’t feel as though the process is intuitive for sharing
>     screens, specific applications, or giving control.
>   * Adding people to a Favorites equivalent of Skype.
>   * Shortcuts for quick tasks like placing calls, jumping to an
>     attachment in a message, etc.
>
> So many more things, but these seem like the recurring headaches.
>
> I appreciate the strives Microsoft has made, but truly, they create 
> these applications in a silo and then get pushy about making people 
> like what they cobbled together, like Copilot. Design a smoother 
> experience, and people won’t need to be forced to use them. It’ll 
> happen organically.
>
> Whew! It must have been a longer Monday than I anticipated!
>
> Joe
>
> *From:*NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> *On Behalf Of 
> *charles.vanek--- via NFBCS
> *Sent:* Monday, August 10, 2026 9:51 PM
> *To:* charles.vanek at gmail.com
> *Cc:* charles.vanek at gmail.com
> *Subject:* [NFBCS] Feedback welcome on a new website regarding 
> Microsoft Teams Accessibility
>
> Good evening,
>
> Hope everyone had a great Monday.
>
> Recently I’ve been very frustrated with Microsoft Teams. As a long 
> time Zoom & Slack user Teams is quite the efficiency killer. Even some 
> of the most basic items, even the Microsoft D.A.D support staff 
> struggle to answer and find work arounds.  I honestly feel like I’m 
> teaching them things about Teams rather than the other way around. I 
> suspect the D.A.D team doesn’t do a lot in Teams or they use a small 
> form factor of Teams functionality.
>
> So what do I do when truly frustrated and need things to change for 
> the better?  I write a CMS framework, buy a domain name, draft a few 
> articles and launch a website.
>
> I’d really appreciate feedback.  Find it at 
> https://www.teamsaccessibility.com
>
> Email feedback, your own FAQs, even author an article I can consider 
> posting under your authorship.  Send directly to 
> feedback at teamsaccessibility.com
>
> The site has no analytics, it won’t trigger any tracking, it’s got a 
> A+ certificate score from Qualys, a 115 out of 100 on Mozilla’s 
> security benchmark, SEO, AEO and GEO features all designed to invite 
> not just people like yourselves but my intent is AI will pick up this 
> information. In doing so my hope is improvement will come.
>
> Best,
>
> Charles
>
>
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