Zoom Accessibility enhancements add-on for NVDA

By: Mohamad Suliman and Eilana Benish

This add-on improves the experience of using Zoom for NVDA users by providing keyboard shortcuts to Handle alerts for Different events While In a meeting, provides an alternative way to view the chat history in a meeting to overcome accessibility issues found sometimes in the native chat view of Zoom, and more...

keyboard shortcuts for controlling alerts In meetings

The following shortcuts can be used to toggle on / off the announcements of each type of alert (note that this will be effective when custom mode is selected):

Note that you need to leave reporting all alert types selected (in Zoom accessibility settings) to have the add-on function as expected.

Keyboard shortcut for Opening the add on Dialogue

NVDA + Z Opens the add-on dialog !

Using this dialog you can :

Remote control

It has ben found out that Zoom now has a dedicated keyboard shortcuts to handle the remote control in an accessible manar. Use the following keyboard shortcuts to:

Chat history dialog

The add-on has a custom dialog where you can see all chat messages sent during the meeting and while the add-on was running. To open this dialog, use NVDA + Ctrl + h. The dialog is very simplistic, it has a list of the sent chat messages with their timestamps also.

An Important note

Currently, the feature of custom alerts mode (where the user can choose which alerts they want to have and which not) works with Zoom only when the user interface language is set to english.