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Entering breakout rooms in Zoom (self.Blind)
submitted by All-Sided
Recently my classes moved to Zoom. I'm totally blind. Mostly I use NVDA for Windows, the Zoom program is on the same machine. I've got an issue, or maybe two issues. we have to work in breakout rooms a lot, then join the main session. The thing is that I constantly have to switch between different windows on the screen during the meeting. Very often when I switch back to Zoom, the local window of the program with the meeting disappears somewhere, so I have to press the button "Return to main meeting". And when at this moment or when I'm viewing something else I'm being requested to join a breakout room, I can't bring up the prompt. I press Alt plus F2, but this won't help. What do I do? Should I tweak something in accessibility settings?
kittenlovr420 2 points 3y ago
I’m currently hosting an online course and we use zoom as well. It’s a host you’re given the option to automatically enter participants into breakout rooms (it’s in the options settings when selecting who goes into which room). Maybe you can reach out to the host and ask them to enable this setting. It takes one less step for the participants so it would actually improve everyone’s experience and accessibility.
bondolo 2 points 3y ago
per /u/accessaces : Press F6. If that doesn't work, we can try something else. I will try it tomorrow and see if there are other suggestions.
Also, the moderator can pull people back to the main room from breakout rooms. Unlike the request to the breakout there is no request on the pull back, you are just pulled back.
Also, the moderator can pull people back to the main room from breakout rooms. Unlike the request to the breakout there is no request on the pull back, you are just pulled back.
All-Sided [OP] 1 points 3y ago
Thank you. Yeah, I get pulled back this way quite a lot. When I'm unable to enter a room, I switch back to the meeting, then ask the host to invite me into another room. This works and we don't mind this, still I'd like to know if there's a better solution.
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