Question: With so many organisations moving from Classic Teams to New Teams, many users have been finding that although similar, the two versions are far from exactly the same. We have been contacted by a number of screen reader users who are finding the incoming chat notifications far too verbose and distracting in the New…
In this instalment of the Accessibility Agony Aunt, we look at an issue where JAWS appears to stop reading a document in Word and subsequently crashes the application. Question: Hi Blazie Can you please help me with this problem? Whenever I create a new document in word, save it and then try to read it,…
In this instalment of the Accessibility Agony Aunt, we look at a feature in Office that may have appeared without your knowledge, the Paste formatting menu. Question: HiI am experiencing something weird when I press the Control key in Word. Sometimes instead of it stopping the speech it will say something about paste recovery, what…
In this week’s Accessibility Agony Aunt, we look at the use of emojis in workplace emails and messages and how to use these in an accessible way. Letter Hi Kelvin, I’ve noticed that people are using emojis a lot more now in emails and interestingly, JAWS appears to be identifying them, e.g., winking face, etc. I know…
AT Agony Aunt, please help me! My work have done something to the ribbon menus in Outlook and now the keystrokes I used to use to accept meeting invites don’t work. How can I accept invites now? Katie AT Agony Aunt Says Hi there Katie, Unfortunately, without taking a look at your machine, I can’t tell you…
For our first Accessibility Agony Aunt, we answer questions about JAWS crashing and how to effectively navigate the ribbon menu in Microsoft Outlook. Letter Hello, I keep having issues at work where my JAWS crashes. Whenever this happens, I have to manually restart JAWS which I find quite difficult without sighted assistance and sometimes I just have…