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Let us make the font size bigger (Zooming)
Make a way to make the font size in the application bigger.
1,050 votes202 comments · Accessibility (keyboard navigation, reader, colors etc.) · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →The zoom feature has released to the public ring. Using CRTL + or CTRL – zoom in and out on a Windows PC.
I need to correct the information I provided last month about MAC. It appears the MAC version is still in testing and hasn’t yet gone out to the public. It is “In Testing” but will be coming to the public soon!
The item tracking this specific update can be found at: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/admin/v3/suggestions/16933183/activity
There now is a UI element that tells you your current zoom level and a Setting within the UI to preset your zoom preference.
Since the zoom feature could very well cover the vast majority of user needs, based on the majority of comments and feedback, I will flag this item as Partially Done.
Thank you for all the feedback and support!
-Warren -
Add Microsoft whiteboard in a Teams channel
Add Microsoft whiteboard in a Teams channel
534 votes -
Pop out video for DHH student's ASL Interpreter
Our deaf and hard of hearing students can not see their interpreter well once the teacher uses screen share/presents because the video of the interpreter shrinks too small. Please have an option to select and pop out a participant. This is the sole reason our district is allowing the DHH team to use Zoom instead. However we have DHH students in non-DHH classes with hearing students and that teacher is required to use Teams for synchronous learning. Please add this accessibility for our DHH students so they can join ALL classrooms.
480 votes -
Keyboard shortcut for mute/unmute microphone
A setting to make use of a keyboard to fast mute/unmute your microphone, this is a very good quality of live feature
326 votes -
Add the ability to have multiple windows open for chats, teams and channels?
It's very hard to keep track of multiple chats and teams all in one window - and time-consuming to keep navigating between them. It would be really useful to have multiple windows available that we can keep open for chats, teams and channels.
323 votes -
Option to change global font size in Teams & apply settings to incoming messages like you can in Lync
Very important for visually impaired individuals. Lync has an option that allows you to specify the global font settings and then click a box that "applies settings to incoming messages."
This means that someone like myself, who is visually impaired, can then set the global font to say 16. Then all messages I type will be at size 16 and more importantly, all the messages I get back from people are going to be size 16 as well.
This option also allows people who Don't want to see messages in size 16 -don't have to. They can specify their own…
316 votes -
**actual** markdown support
The current markdown implementation is simply bad as it's not actual markdown. Instead it's some kind of in-line format guesser that changes what you type on enter.
- it doesn't work in the client
- it doesn't apply to messages submitted via webhook integrations
- it doesn't work on cut-n-pasted text
- it's not complete (tons of markdown syntax missing)
- it doesn't allow simple shortcuts via "/extension" (looking at you, /giphy)
in-line reformatting is slow and often unpredictable in the way it responds as you type, making for a poor experience, especially as you attempt to reformat a message you started typing.
Remember Teams…
315 votes -
Allow the addition of Alt Text for images
The addition of Alt Text is a basic accessibility consideration. Currently we can't do this is Teams (you can do it easily in Yammer).
Currently we are using the work around of adding descriptive text when posting an image.
302 votes -
Desktop App needs to allow the Font to be adjusted
We have a number of users who are struggling with the font size the desktop app, be great if it could be adjusted. Its fine on the web app.
235 votes2 comments · Accessibility (keyboard navigation, reader, colors etc.) · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →Hi guys, turns out that we put this on the previous release notes but it actually isn’t releasing until this week.
I’m really sorry! I hope you all weren’t too affected.
Some of you have pinged me individually on this, I’ll make sure to let you know on email/Twitter too. I’ll update this item back to complete once the feature is out.
Thank you so much for your feedback and engagement, and please keep helping us make this product great!
Sincerely,
Suphatra
Microsoft Teams
Email: sparavi@microsoft.com
Social: twitter.com/skprufo -
Dictate
Add Dictate (as in OneNote, Word) to Teams please
224 votes -
Change 'Accept Call' button color to green to match other familiar UI elements
When I receive an incoming call request, if I'm on autopilot sometimes my inclination is to click on the red 'decline call' button because that button has a different color than the other buttons--this makes it stand out as an option.
If you changed the color of the 'accept call' button to a medium green, this would make both 'accept' and 'decline' stand out from the rest of the interface and also help facilitate usability for those who are partially blind.
Doing this would align the most important call interaction buttons to the same color scheme that iOS/Android use and…
218 votes -
Screen Sharing - add an "actual size" button to show the presenter's desktop resolution
It is difficult for viewers with poor vision to see desktops that are shared. HDMeeting and other videoconferencing apps have a UI element to show the 'actual size' of the display resolution.
Users can use the zoom button to enhance the Teams call controls, but not the shared screen.
191 votes -
Notification sounds
Pleas add the option to change notification sounds. When a notification sounds i dont know if its on my laptop or my wife's laptop
190 votes -
Delete Chats instead of hide
Delete Chats instead of hide
176 votes -
Allow live captions to work during screen sharing
I was part of a "Accessibility in Teams and Immersive Reader for All" live training and the live captions did not work. The moderator told me it was because the person was going to be screen sharing.
I tried it later myself and they were right, it doesn't work, at least from the hosts side. I didn't have anyone else on with me.
They still could have had the captions on when they weren't screen sharing...
I have multiple Deaf and Hard of Hearing coworkers as well as D/HH students who could benefit from this.165 votes -
Request Control button - move, add confirmation, or allow undo
I've got tremors, and the Request Control button is way too easy to hit when I want to look at the chat or participants list
Please move the button, add a confirmation, or allow the request to be withdrawn.
156 votes51 comments · Accessibility (keyboard navigation, reader, colors etc.) · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →Thank you for your feedback. The feature team has placed this under review, we will share an update as soon as one is available.
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Multiple Windows open @ once
It would be nice to be able to open multiple windows of Teams at once. For example: a chat window, a Teams window, a planner window all at the same time.
154 votes -
Allow for change of background/font colors
Allow us to change fonts or background colors as default grey font on white background makes it really hard to see...
137 votes -
Please make Teams multi-window
From the company which invented Windows... a single-window productivity application. Really?
As multi-tasking is the accepted way of operating now, why does it need to take so long for me to switch from one task in Teams to another and back again? Please fix.133 votes -
Shorter Links !
Just make the links shorter, when pasting a link to another location on the chat.
It's always too poluted, We write down a 1 line comment and the link extension has 6 lines (!)
Thanks
118 votes24 comments · Accessibility (keyboard navigation, reader, colors etc.) · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →You can create add a hyperlink to any text, which will allow you to avoid massive links being copied into the chat/channels.
Expand the compose box by clicking the icon “A” with a pencil just below your compose line. Once in the expanded view you can create a link by clicking the icon that looks like a chain at the top of the compose box.You can also highlight your text and use this function to change your selected text into a hyperlink. Once the hyperlink dialog opens update the link location and modify your text if you so desire.
-Warren
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