For anyone who may be interested, the live captions in MS teams meetings are NOT visible to a braille display.
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For anyone who may be interested, the live captions in MS teams meetings are NOT visible to a braille display. Or if they are I couldn't find them and I scrolled over the entire screen. However, if you are Deafblind and use teams you can turn on live captions through braille access, and choose "phone name" audio as the source and it will caption the meeting for you. The default for the onboard iPhone Live Captions is the microphone because it assumes you want to hear spoken words in your environment. However once you are in live captions you can hit backspace and it will take you to a context menu for things like pause, copy and then it will say either microphone or phone audio and choose phone audio. It works well however you need to wrangle the hearing people in these meetings because you do not get a name with the spoken content and if everyone is talking at once-- a thing hearing people love doing in meetings for .... reasons I don't understand-- you are going to have trouble figuring out who is saying what. However, if you can get the hearing people to behave in a civilized way, it works well provided you are a fast enough braille reader to read at the rate of spoken language 150 wpm. And now I think I need to go outside and touch grass because ... see above about hearing people talking over one another...

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