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There's always been this small number within Reddit somewhere in the header, and it sometimes increases. I assumed it was maybe a Drafts folder, for when I'm writing a post but close the browser tab before actually posting it.

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Low and behold, I recently realized this is online chat within Reddit! I go check it out, and realize there's a bunch of people offering me work / contracts for software development. This would have been handy to know during the months I was banging my head on the wall, wondering why I couldn't find any work. The joys of being blind.

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Anyway, to the point... now I know it's for live chats, got it. However, it's horrendous to navigate via screen reader, or at least for me it is. I get placed into one main developer chat room, then I scroll up a bunch and enter some list of people who have initiated a chat with me. I can click on of them, then scroll REALLY far down to see that specific chat window.

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However, when I have like 20 chats going, that list at the top that contains messages and links of people who have initiated a chat with me doesn't hold them all. I get maybe 8 people at the most, so I'm still missing some. I can get that number of unread chats down to 16, but that's it. Every chat I just tell them to please either send me a DM via Reddit, e-mail or, or add me to WhatsApp. Of course though, nobody listens and they still keep sending message svia the online chat.

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Any tips from other blind folks on how to navigate Reddis' internal chat via screen reader? I'm using Orca screen reader on LINUX if that matters any. I think the keyboard shortcuts and functionality is pretty close to NVDA though.

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Thanks in advance.