JamesW wrote:
Microsoft heavily promotes itself as neurodiversity-aware, and has a recruitment program for neurodiverse people, called MSND. However, neurodiversity awareness isn't particularly borne out in their products.
I've just written to them asking them to include an option to disable the little three-dot 'typing' animation in the Teams chat window, which currently cannot be turned off. Surely there are enough neurodiverse people working at Microsoft that one of them might have pointed out that for some autistic people, that animation is such a distraction as to make Teams unusable.
Note to mods: I've put this in the 'Work' topic because it's likely that if people use Microsoft Teams, they're using it at work. It it needs to move (e.g. to Rants), please go ahead.
I used Microsoft Teams in my last job and just chuckled when I read this about the three-dot typing animation because It used to bother me too sometimes. Mostly in a anxious way like "I wonder what they are going to write". I did notice they eventually got rid of it. It's not a bad chat system overall. I haven't had to do a lot of web meetings with it besides one for a audit exit interview last year. I think I am a fan of classic teams vs their new layout now.
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