[NFBCS] Strangeness in Zoom

[Ty Littlefield]

I don't remember if this came up here or somewhere else, but apparently 
they plan to fix it in the next release. This looks and feels like 
debugging information though.

Either way, I'm just putting this degredation down to the 
inshitification of yet another product where they're trying to force AI 
on you. It's much more usable on the phone which is where I use it for 
all my millions of work meetings unless I need to screenshare or do 
virtual pair-programming with someone. this might be a better option; I 
just have a cheap 3 port active mixer I stuck to the bottom of my desk 
with dual-lock, so my phone and JAWS from my desktop come through the 
same headphones.


HTH,


On 3/25/2026 8:54 PM, Amy Ruell via NFBCS wrote:
> Hello Steve and all,
> I’m afraid I’ve had the exact same experience. Zoom is becoming less 
> and less user-friendly.
> Amy.
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 25, 2026, at 10:30 PM, Steve Jacobson via NFBCS 
>> <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> 
>>
>> Recently on two computers, I am noticing that Zoom is speaking 
>> CONTROL_ID information, and when looking at settings, some settings 
>> seem not to be spoken.The pattern seems to be that if I TAB to a 
>> setting that tells one to press F6 to go to Pop-up that controls are 
>> no longer spoken.I have tried pressing F6 in case a pop-up can be 
>> closed but nothing speaks.For a specific example, going to the Audio 
>> tab and tabbing through the speaker settings one will encounter a 
>> control that says “For gallery or immersive view only. Not supported 
>> with wireless headphones. Press F6 to reach the popup”.At that point, 
>> pressing TAB speaks nothing.On occasion, speech has returns, but 
>> stops when I hit the next control with a pop-up. The behavior seems 
>> to be the same with JAWS, NVDA, and Narrator.I am using Windows 11 on 
>> both machines.Everything seems to work if I navigate with the JAWS 
>> Touch controls.Is this something that is happening to others?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Steve Jacobson
>>
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