I haven't used Zoom with Jaws in a while, so I don't know how helpful 
this is. Mostly I've used Zoom with Narrator or NVDA. When I was using 
Jaws, I noticed that sometimes Jaws would stop speaking. Sometimes 
speech would come back; other times it wouldn't. This didn't happen 
often, but it happened often enough for me to mistrust Jaws with Zoom.


Anyway, instead of restarting Zoom or my computer, I would restart Jaws. 
Sometimes I would just use the Jaws hotkey of alt+ctrl+j. Sometimes I 
would use the recovery hotkey, which I don't remember now, maybe 
Jaws+Windows+alt (hope someone corrects me if that's wrong). Sometimes I 
would have to stop Jaws (Jaws+F4 followed by enter), then restart Jaws.


Eventually, I switched to NVDA with Zoom. One benefit is that it's super 
easy to send screen reader chatter to the computer speakers so it's not 
interfering with Zoom on the headset. The NVDA command for this is 
ctrl+NVDA+s, then tab to Audio Output to select an option.


On 2/10/2022 6:08 PM, Jeff Kenyon wrote:
> Hi everyone, I have had an issue come up with Zoom and JAWS for the last couple of weeks.  When I start the meeting, and before I go into speech on demand JAWS doesn’t talk at all, but the Braille Display keeps on working.  On a few occasions, I’ve had to leave the meeting, and restart the computer and return to the meeting.  Last night, I didn’t have to do this, but after a while JAWS started talking again.  I’ve also noticed that while in Zoom and switching from one user’s computer to another’s there will be a number on the far right end of the display.  This appears to happen when someone shares their audio or video.
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