Re: [orca-list] Can I tell if I'm muted in Zoom for Linux?

["John G. Heim" <jheim math wisc edu>]

Oh, man! That sure as heck did it! Whew! Just to be clear for others 
reading this thread... Control \ control \ shows the buttons for 
mute/unmute, start/stop video, etc. I am indeed using the version of 
Zoom downloaded from their web site and it works. In fact, the beauty of 
this thing is that I have a braille display so I can turn off speech in 
orca and still read those buttons. I am pretty sure you cannot do that 
in MacOS. I asked on a list for Mac users and apparently, there is no 
way to toggle speech on/off in VoiceOver. You can turn the volume all 
the way down but then you won't be able to hear the call. So orca beats 
VoiceOver here.


On 9/17/21 11:14 PM, prayner unimelb edu au wrote:
> First don't feel too bad about this either way, it's obviously a
> problem for sighted users too "you're on mute" should be the
> phrase-of-the-year for 2020 and 2021. Next the answer to this depends
> a lot on which version of zoom you're using. At the moment I'm using
> the snap version with ubuntu 18.04LTS. With this version, provided the
> toolbar is "visible" I can tab through the controls, one of which is
> "mute" or "unmute" depending on current state. Video and recording
> work similarly. Note the toolbar seems to vanish from time to time,
> ctrl-\ (control backslash) seems to get it back reliably.
> Now if someone can find me a way to stop screensharing once I've
> started I'd be most grateful.
> Note that the downloaded version of zoom from their web-site is much
> less accessible. I suspect that's the version you're using since the
> behaviour you note is what I saw with that. The flatpak version is
> *probably* accessible too once the magic flags have been set. One
> collaboration App vaguely under control, 36 to go :-) Next week Teams
> on linux.
> cheers
> Peter
> John G. Heim writes:
> > Other than asking everybody else on a Zoom call if they can hear me, how=20
> > can I tell if I am muted while using the Zoom client for Linux?
> >
> > --=20
> > ###
> > John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim math wisc edu

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John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim math wisc edu