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

Tue Aug 11 11:50:03 UTC 2026

If you ever figure out how to see who’s speaking in a conversation, I will be grateful. Also, if you figure out how to tell if a person is online before starting a conversation with them.

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It used to be if you were in a chat or conversation you could do alt one through nine and go to the different tabs of the conversation like the files from the conversation, etc. I don’t really know what the other ones were used for, but I used to use it for finding people’s attachments and files all the time then at some point on my Teams at work, they changed it so that you have to tab around and find something called the menu button where it’ll say something like chat menu. this is highly unintuitive and there’s no good keyboard command for it. The alt commands don’t work anymore and I find because Teams keeps changing jaws information about how to access certain features is frequently outdated then again you have to understand. I’m still upset about the Microsoft Office ribbon so my hatred for Teams runs deep.

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

I'll have to see about logging into Teams on my Android work phone and see if that works. Even so, that would leave other secure enclaves that can't be configured with a phone. Oy. I fear I may be sounding older by the day, but my sighted coworkers complain just as hard about Teams. At some point Microsoft should really build what people need, not what it thinks people want.

Joe

On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 12:23 AM Ty Littlefield <tyler at tysdomain.com<mailto:tyler at tysdomain.com>> wrote:

I'm greatful to have migrated to a company that uses Slack, so my information is outdated, but this issue has existed since as far back as 2018 when I was at Vispero (I feel old, I need to stop using years and dates).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

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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<mailto: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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