[Colorado-Talk] Shutting Up Join/Leave Announcements in Zoom

[Tim Keenan]

Cool, I'll try that!
Yeah, I need to be using my computer for other things, so shutting down 
the screen reader isn't an option.



On 7/17/2020 4:46 AM, Catherine Michele Mitchell via Colorado-Talk wrote:
> Tim, I noticed in the zoom settings menu under Meetings there is an 
> option to "show name when participants join in quote Wwhich you can 
> toggle on or off. I don't know how well this works since I haven't 
> tried it yet myself; also not sure if it works for announcing peoples 
> names as they leave. But who knows? Give it a try; then maybe you can 
> leave The NVDA voice on for anything you actually do want to hear.
>
> Good luck, man!
> Michele?
>
>>   Jul 16, 2020, at 4:05 PM, Curtis Chong via Colorado-Talk 
>> <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Greetings:
>>
>> If you are using NVDA, you can toggle speech on and off by pressing 
>> the NVDA key with the letter s. You really don't want to do this if 
>> you are the person managing the meeting platform. There is a thing 
>> you can do to the NVDA dictionary to suppress the messages about 
>> people leaving and entering, but I do not have the technical details 
>> for that as of now. Again, this is problematic really if you are the 
>> person managing the Zoom meeting.
>>
>> Cordially,
>>
>> Curtis Chong
>>
>> *From:*Colorado-Talk <colorado-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> *On Behalf Of 
>> *Tim Keenan via Colorado-Talk
>> *Sent:* Thursday, July 16, 2020 11:10 AM
>> *To:* NFB of Colorado Discussion List <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> *Cc:* Tim Keenan <tkeenan79 at gmail.com>
>> *Subject:* [Colorado-Talk] Shutting Up Join/Leave Announcements in Zoom
>>
>> Happy Convention, all,
>>
>> Help!
>>
>> I use NVDA on my PC, and it interrupts and alerts me every time 
>> someone joins or leaves a Zoom meeting. In crowded meetings, this can 
>> be pretty obnoxious.
>> Does anyone know how to shut this off, either in Zoom or NVDA?
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tim
>>
>>
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