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using Slack with JAWS (self.Blind)
submitted 5.2333616898148145y ago by KrolPolski
Slack is a key application at my office, and I've been trying to figure out how to get it to work with JAWS.
It doesn't seem to work at all with the virtual PC cursor on, but I tried turning off the virtual PC cursor off with JAWS+Z and then using the keyboard shortcuts in the slack documentation. If you use the application keyboard shortcuts instead of standard JAWS navigation it seems to work pretty well.
The shortcuts are here: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201374536-Slack-keyboard-shortcuts
Notifications are spoken as expected and they interrupt the screen reader if you are reading something else to give you a heads up someone is trying to reach you, which is exactly the functionality I needed.
I'd love to hear feedback from anyone else who has tried to use JAWS with Slack recently, especially if you have tried it with the virtual cursor off using the native slack keyboard shortcuts.
It doesn't seem to work at all with the virtual PC cursor on, but I tried turning off the virtual PC cursor off with JAWS+Z and then using the keyboard shortcuts in the slack documentation. If you use the application keyboard shortcuts instead of standard JAWS navigation it seems to work pretty well.
The shortcuts are here: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201374536-Slack-keyboard-shortcuts
Notifications are spoken as expected and they interrupt the screen reader if you are reading something else to give you a heads up someone is trying to reach you, which is exactly the functionality I needed.
I'd love to hear feedback from anyone else who has tried to use JAWS with Slack recently, especially if you have tried it with the virtual cursor off using the native slack keyboard shortcuts.
rkingett 2 points 5y ago
Sorry! I can't tell you anything. I use NVDA only. But it works okay for me. I just wish they had an accessible desktop client.
fastfinge 1 points 5y ago
I use NVDA. The issue is, when I'm not in the Slack window, notifications aren't read at all. So it's a constant game of missing stuff, or checking Slack every three minutes no matter what I'm doing. I gave up.
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