[Athen] Zoom question

glen walker glen.walker at gmail.com
Mon Oct 5 10:11:19 PDT 2020


I've never had my screen reader being louder than my voice on zoom calls
before. Interesting problem. If you're on a PC, have you tried the volume
mixer? When JAWS or NVDA is running, they will show up in the list of
applications that are running. If you're a keyboard user, the Windows+B
shortcut will move your focus to the bottom right taskbar that shows your
clock and speaker settings. You can arrow right to the speaker icon then
press the context menu button (if you have one of those on your keyboard,
usually to the right of the spacebar, sometimes between the Windows key and
the Ctrl key) and choose "Open Volume Mixer". If you're a mouse user, then
you can right click on the speaker icon. Or you can hit the Windows key
and start typing "volume" and select "Adjust system volume".

Anyway, once that dialog is up, try adjusting the volume for the screen
reader. Whatever you set it to should be remembered the next time you run
the screen reader.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 10:32 AM Deborah Armstrong <armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu>
wrote:


> So I want to do some videos in zoom demonstrating how to accomplish some

> online learning tasks using a screen reader.

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> When I share my screen and include sound, the screen reader is louder than

> my voice. I’ve tried adjusting the volume of the screen reader’s voice, and

> I’ve tried adjusting my microphone volume, but it takes a lot of tweaking

> and is not perfect. I have to do a test, record, listen, do another test.

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> There is a setting “use original sound” and I’ve tried it too – yet more

> tweaking.

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> Does anyone have a more foolproof method for making sure the computer

> sound is at a lower volume than the microphone sound? I’d like to reduce

> the amount of time it takes to get all the audio levels perfect. The video

> seems to be OK.

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> --Debee

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