[orca-list] what's the right way to use zoom?

[<prayner unimelb edu au>]

Zoom is a deep mystery. I've been using it independently with orca for
two years and when I've looked at this for others I've struggled to
find the magic button I must have pushed accidentally. One thing to
note is that zoom is qt based.
Running
printenv|grep -i qt
in a shell yields
QT4_IM_MODULE=xim
QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON=1
and two of those seem relevant.
zoom versions also seem to matter. I noticed an improvement in
accessibility some time during version 5.
I also *never* launch zoom directly but always via a browser.
For example, under emacs I have a function set to jump to my own
zoomroom to start a meeting
(defun myzoom ()
  "shorthand for activating zoom"
  (interactive)
  (browse-url-chrome "https://unimelb.edu.au/zoom";))
This will bring up a page with one link to host a zoom meeting.
Clicking that will ask me for my credentials (still in the browser,
not zoom) then launch the meeting.
This is great since I think my initial roadblock to zoom was launching
meetings.
There are a couple of settings for gnome which help this process.
To make the launch more automatic
xdg-mime default Zoom.desktop x-scheme-handler/zoommtg

and this command to verify:
xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/zoommtg
Once inside zoom it works a bit. tab and shift-tab take you through
controls and quite a many of the shortcut keys work. ctrl-backslash is
often important to unhide the menu bar (at least I assume that's what
it's doing). Changing settings accessibly seems to depend on a
favourable conjunction of the planets. sharing your screen with
a meeting works but I can't unshare it afterwards except by killing
the meeting from the browser or a shell (I can't get back into zoom
once I've shared a different screen). The chat function is only partly
accessible but the participants window is decent.
Hope all this helps but we should continue this conversation since
zoom is unfortunately a super-important tool. I've spent more time
inside zoom than any other program except emacs for the last two years.
cheers
Peter


kk's Programming Hub writes:
> Hello all.
>
> Till date I haven't been able to attend zoom meetings on my own.
>
> I have zoom client but it is totally inaccessible.
>
> Does anyone know any work around, or is it still one of those things=20
> which are totally inaccessible with Orca?
>
> Regards.
>
> KK
>
>
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