"ClickBoom, Then It Happens"! With Microsoft Outlook and Teams.

You may be aware that people taking part in our training for Microsoft Teams have additional JAWS script files to support them. These include features such as notification of when a person is typing through a sound, speech or Braille. They give access to elements of Teams which cannot be navigated to with the keyboard. There is a special "Condensed Mode" to abbreviate information in the Teams Calendar. There are additional prompts to aid navigation in specific areas of Teams. More keystrokes have been added to support meetings. You can disable a lot of the added tutorial-based information sent to the user by the program. You can even get to Teams from anywhere. And so much more. The scripts are packed with features.

Our course participants also have access to our scripts for Microsoft Outlook, providing a considerably enhanced level of support to the Outlook calendar, flagging items and Email attachments. Teams shines when you use it in conjunction with Outlook! Best of all, we've ensured that people can easily access links in Meeting Notes; useful for customising meeting options.

But there is one upcoming feature which deserves special mention. We call it "ClickBoom".

Imagine you are researching something on the web or you are working in a Word document. A message arrives in Teams or Outlook. JAWS says the word "Outlook" or "Teams", followed by who the message is from and optionally a brief summary of the message.

Press a keystroke and you'll be able to read the message in full, reply to it or delete it. No need to ALT+Tab to your Inbox, find the message, and open it. Of course you can attach a file to your reply, especially important if the boss is waiting for a spreadsheet! She may be a boss who doesn't like waiting!

When you've replied, press a keystroke, and "Boom", you are right back where you were, within the web page or Word document.

So when the message arrives, you click into it, do what you need, and then "Boom", you can go right back to where you were!

The ClickBoom feature also allows you to review the last ten incoming messages from either program or all of them which JAWS has captured. You can also stop them from being spoken entirely which is often useful when your chats get busy.

Our scripts for Teams and Outlook will be available later this month as a separate module to the Teams training, or they can be purchased as part of the tuition as is currently the case. Over eight hours of training will be available by the time the course has completed.

Improve your productivity with "ClickBoom!"