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

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

Well, this is not a voiceover support list but Space + M? That's going 
to give you a space and a capital M. Here's what Apple Support has to 
say about muting speech on VoiceOver.
https://support.apple.com/guide/voiceover/pause-or-mute-voiceover-mchlp2707/mac

Unless the Apple support docs are out of date, it is not a single 
shortcut key. I was misremembering the problem though. You can turn the 
volume down on VoiceOver and therefore still hear the Zoom call.

Like i said, I asked about this on a list, probably MacVisionaries. If 
my information is incorrect, I have good reasons for it.


On 9/19/21 9:06 AM, r d t prater gmail com wrote:
> What? Space + M should silence speech on VoiceOver fine. I’m running 
> Fedora, so Ill have to try that Control + Backslash thing. Also lol I 
> can’t even get Braille working in the GUI with Orca on Linux. Probably 
> some group my user is not in or something dumb like that.
> Devin Prater
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> > On Sep 18, 2021, at 8:23 AM, John G. Heim via orca-list 
> > <orca-list gnome org <mailto:orca-list gnome org>> wrote:
> >
> > 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 
> > <mailto: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 
> > > > <mailto:jheim math wisc edu>
> >
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