I have already discussed good solutions for those wanting to read the screens of Zoom with VO, rather than the TTS built in to the program. The difficulty is that in some situations, and I can’t put my finger on how to reproduce this, VO decides to crash and speech is lost entirely. After consulting with Andrew on this, it seems that VoiceOver has difficulties navigating in a long stream of text.
to get around the problem, go into Zoom’s preferences, Select General, then move the amount of scrollback to retain slider to something low like 25 per cent. This seems to have solved the issue for now.
The only thing to be aware of is that once the buffer for scrollback is full, VO will zip you to the top of the screen if using the strategies already mentioned here. There isn’t an easy workaround for this at present. the best thing to do is navigate to the bottom of the screen with VO Shift End, work up to the room name/text of your previous command and read back down. VO can get stuck sometimes, so the best thing to do is move left one character and then up again. This is a known issue and will be looked into for the future.
