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JAWS and Microsoft Teams: Screen Sharing (self.Blind)
submitted by QuietOk2468
Hello, I am a vocational rehab specialist doing job training with someone who uses JAWS with Microsoft Teams with a new remote job she just started. Currently, a supervisor needs to share their screen in order to demonstrate a software platform she will need for the job. Does anyone know of a way that JAWS can be used to read the screen of someone who is sharing, or related work-arounds? Any tips or advice is much appreciated!
775577 3 points 2y ago
From my experience Teams is a step backwards for Microsoft's accessibility. Not screen reader friendly. Very disappointing. Zoom on the other hand gets it
retrolental_morose 1 points 2y ago
Zoom doesn't do accessible screen shares though? I see no real way for it to work, although I'm sure I've seen accessible presentations on blackboard or similar academic stuff.
IronDominion 3 points 2y ago
There’s no way to do it within Teams, as what’s shown is just a video image. The best solution would be using the Tandem feature in JAWS
QuietOk2468 [OP] 2 points 2y ago
I hadn't heard of the Tandem feature before - will absolutely look into this!
Jess_dillon 2 points 2y ago
QuietOk2468 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Thank you so much for this info! We ended up doing a similar work around to share the screen of the PC with JAWS enabled, and then granting remote-control to the other user for the sake of demonstrating the online platform and still have JAWS read each feature.
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