This article is for people who use a screen reader program such as Windows Narrator, JAWS, or NVDA with Windows tools or features and Microsoft 365 products. This article is part of the Accessibility help & learning content set where you can find more accessibility information on our apps. For general help, visit Microsoft Support.
Use Microsoft Stream with your keyboard and a screen reader to upload, find, filter, and sort your videos. We have tested it with Narrator, but it might work with other screen readers as long as they follow common accessibility standards and techniques. You'll also learn how to update the video details, delete your videos, or restore them from the recycle bin.
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New Microsoft 365 features are released gradually to Microsoft 365 subscribers, so your app might not have these features yet. To learn how you can get new features faster, join the Office Insider program.
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To learn more about screen readers, go to How screen readers work with Microsoft 365.
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When you use Microsoft Stream, we recommend that you use Microsoft Edge as your web browser and Narrator as your screen reader.
If you use Chrome or Firefox as your web browser, we recommend that you use JAWS or NVDA as your screen reader.
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Upload a video
You can upload a video from your device or from a cloud location. You can also quickly publish a video for everyone in your company to see, or grant access to the video only to specific groups, channels, or contacts.
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Press the Tab key until you hear "Create menu option," and press Enter.
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Press the Down arrow key until you hear "Upload video," and press Enter. The upload window opens, and the focus is on the browse link.
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Press Enter. The Windows Open dialog box opens, and the focus is in the File name text field.
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Navigate to the video file you want, and press Enter to upload it. The video details window opens, displaying the upload progress.
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To edit the name of the video, press the Tab key until you hear "Name, edit," and the current name. Type to change the name.
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To add a description to the video, press the Tab key once, and type your description.
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To change the default video language, press the Tab key until you hear "Video language," press Spacebar to expand the list, press Up or Down arrow until you hear the language you want, and press Enter to select it.
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By default, everyone in your company is allowed to view your video. If you want to publish the video for everyone to see, you can proceed to step 11.
If you want that only certain groups, channels, or contacts are allowed to view the video, press the Tab key until you hear "Permissions tab," and press Enter. The Permissions tab opens.
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In the Permissions tab, press the Tab key until you hear "Allow everyone in your company to view this video, checkbox, checked," and press the Spacebar to unselect the option. A confirmation window opens. Press the Tab key until you reach the Yes button, and press Enter.
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To define the group, channel, or contacts that are allowed to view your video, press the Tab key until you hear "Select the search type," and press Spacebar. Press the Down arrow key until you hear the search type you want, for example "My groups," and press Enter to select it.
Press the Tab key until you hear "Share with, edit," and type your search words, for example, a group name. The search results are loaded as you type. Press the Tab key until you hear the name of a group, channel, or contact you want, and press Enter to select it.
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To publish your video, press the Tab key until you hear "Publish now," and press Enter. The video is published, and the focus returns to the upload window.
For info on how to add captions or subtitles to your video, go to Use a screen reader to add subtitles or captions to your Microsoft Stream video.
Update the details of your video
You can change the details and settings of your video even after publishing it. You can, for example, edit the video name and description, change the permissions, allow Microsoft Stream to add a timeline view of people who appear in your video, or allow viewers to leave comments.
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Navigate to the video whose details you want to edit. For instructions, go to Find all your videos.
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Once you've located the video, press the Tab key until you hear "Update video details," and press Enter. The Editing page opens.
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To browse the editable options, press the Tab key. To expand menus, press Spacebar, to move in the menu, press the Up or Down arrow key, and to select an option, press Enter. To toggle a button or a checkbox on or off, press Spacebar.
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For example, you can update the following details:
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To change the video name or description, press the Tab key until you reach Name or Description text field, and type to edit the name.
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To allow groups and contacts to edit the video info and change who can view the video, press the Tab key until you are prompted to make a group or contact an owner of the video, and press Spacebar.
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To remove permissions from a group, channel, or contact, press the Tab key until you hear "Remove this video," followed by the group or channel, or "Remove the permissions," followed by the contact, and press Spacebar.
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To add a people timeline to your video, press the Tab key until you hear "People button, off," and press Spacebar.
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To allow comments for your video, press the Tab key until you hear "Comments button, off," and press Spacebar.
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Find all your videos
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Press the Tab key until you hear "My content," and press Enter.
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Press the Down arrow key until you hear "Link, videos," and press Enter. The videos that you've uploaded are displayed, and the focus is on the Videos tab.
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To browse the list of your videos, press the Tab key. Your screen reader announces the video title and the length of the video.
Tip: Once you hear the title of the video you want, press the Right arrow key to check out which options or actions are available for your video. For example, you can check how many times your video has been viewed or update the video details.
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To play a video, press Enter.
Search, filter, and sort your videos
You can use Search to look for specific content among the videos that you've uploaded, sort your videos, or filter them by their state or privacy.
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Navigate to the list of your videos as instructed in Find all your videos.
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Do one or more of the following:
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To search for a specific video or content among your uploads, press the Tab key until you hear "Search for videos," type your search words, and press Enter.
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To sort all your videos or the search results, press the Tab key until you hear "Sort by," and press the Spacebar to expand the sorting menu. Press the Up or Down arrow key until you hear the value you want, and press Enter to sort the videos.
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To filter all your videos or the search results by whether they're drafts or published, press the Tab key until you hear "State," and press Spacebar. Press the Up or Down arrow key until you hear the value you want, and press Enter to filter the videos.
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To filter all your videos or the search results by their privacy setting, press the Tab key until you hear "Privacy," and press Spacebar. Press the Up or Down arrow key until you hear the value you want, and press Enter to filter the videos.
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To browse the search results, press the Tab key.
Delete a video
You can delete videos that you've uploaded to Microsoft Stream or videos that you own.
When you delete a video, it goes into the recycle bin for 30 days. You can restore videos from the recycle bin if they were accidently deleted or permanently delete videos already in the recycle bin before reaching the 30 day limit. If no action is taken within 30 days, the videos will be automatically purged from the recycle bin and permanently deleted.
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Navigate to the video you want to delete. For instructions, go to Find all your videos.
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Once you've found the video, press the Tab key until you hear "More actions button," and press Enter.
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Press the Down arrow key until you hear "Delete," and press Enter.
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A confirmation window opens. To move the video to the recycle bin, press the Tab key until you reach the Delete the video button, and press Enter. The focus returns to the video list.
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To go to the recycle bin, press the Tab key until you hear "Recycle bin," and press Enter.
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Press the SR key+Right arrow key until you hear the video you want to delete, press the Tab key until you hear "Delete, button," and press Enter.
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A confirmation window opens. To permanently delete the video, press the Tab key until you reach the Delete button, and press Enter. The focus returns to the recycle bin.
Restore a video from the recycle bin
If you accidentally moved a video into the recycle bin, you can still restore it within 30 days from when you moved it.
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In the recycle bin, press the SR key+Right arrow key until you hear the video you want to restore, press the Tab key until you hear "Restore, button," and press Enter.
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A confirmation window opens. To restore the video, press the Tab key until you reach the Go to video button, and press Enter. The video opens in the video player.
See also
Use a screen reader to play videos in Microsoft Stream
Use a screen reader to find content in Microsoft Stream
Keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Stream
Use Microsoft Stream with VoiceOver, the built-in iOS screen reader, to upload videos, update video details, or delete your videos.
Notes:
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New Microsoft 365 features are released gradually to Microsoft 365 subscribers, so your app might not have these features yet. To learn how you can get new features faster, join the Office Insider program.
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This topic assumes that you are using the built-in iOS screen reader, VoiceOver. To learn more about using VoiceOver, visit Apple accessibility.
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For the full experience, use Microsoft Stream on the web. In your browser, go to https://msit.microsoftstream.com/.
In this topic
Upload a video
You can upload a video from your device. To quickly publish a video for everyone in your company, use the Quick share option. If you want only specific groups, channels, or contacts to view your video, use Microsoft Stream on the web to manage the video permissions.
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In the Discover or My content tab, swipe right or left until you hear "Upload, button," and double-tap the screen.
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Swipe right until you hear "Upload from camera roll," and double-tap the screen. If Stream wants to access your photos, swipe right until you reach the OK button, and double-tap the screen.
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The Camera roll app opens. Swipe right until you hear the video you want, and double-tap the screen to select it. The Upload dialog box opens. The focus is in the video name text field.
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Use the on-screen keyboard to type a descriptive name for your video. Once you're ready, swipe right until you hear "Done," and double-tap the screen.
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The focus moves to the video description text field. To add a description, double-tap the screen and use the on-screen keyboard to type. To exit the keyboard, tap with four fingers near the top of the screen.
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To select the video language for a transcript, swipe right until you hear "Language," followed by the currently selected language, and double-tap the screen. Swipe right until you hear the language you want, and double-tap the screen to select it.
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To move to the next set of options, swipe right until you hear "Next," and double-tap the screen. You hear: "Quick share."
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The Quick share option is selected by default. It allows you to publish your video immediately for everyone in your company to see. If you don't want to use this option, you need to turn off VoiceOver and ask a colleague to help you unselect the Quick share option.
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To turn on or off options for people timeline, comments, or captions, swipe left or right until you hear "Video options," and double-tap the screen. Swipe right to browse the available options, and double-tap the screen to select or unselect an option. Once you're done, swipe left until you hear "Back button," and double-tap the screen.
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To publish your video, do one of the following:
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If you're using the Quick share option, swipe right until you hear "Publish," and double-tap the screen. The video is published, and everyone in your company is allowed to watch it. To return to the list of your videos, swipe right until you hear "Done," and double-tap the screen.
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If you turned off the Quick share option, swipe right until you hear "Save as draft," and double-tap the screen. The video is saved, but not published. To return to the list of your videos, swipe right until you hear "Done," and double-tap the screen.
To publish your draft video, navigate to the draft video as instructed in Find all your videos. Swipe right until you hear "Menu button," and double-tap the screen. Swipe right until you hear "Publish, button," and double-tap the screen.
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Update the details of your video
You can change the details and settings of both draft and published videos. You can, for example, edit the video name and description, allow Microsoft Stream to add a timeline view of people who appear in your video, or allow viewers to leave comments.
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Navigate to the video whose details you want to edit. For instructions, go to Find all your videos.
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Once you've found the video, swipe right until you hear "Menu button," and double-tap the screen. The menu of available actions for the video opens.
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Swipe right until you hear "Edit button," and double-tap the screen. You hear: "Text field, is editing." The focus is in the video name text field.
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To change the video name, use the on-screen keyboard to type a new name. Once you're ready, swipe right until you hear "Done," and double-tap the screen.
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To change the video description, swipe left or right until you hear either "Write a description" or the current description, and double-tap the screen. Use the on-screen keyboard to edit the text. To exit the keyboard, tap with four fingers near the top of the screen.
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To change the video language for the transcript, swipe left or right until you hear "Language," and double-tap the screen. Swipe right until you hear the language you want, and double-tap the screen.
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To move to the next set of options, swipe left or right until you hear "Next," and double-tap the screen. You hear: "Quick share."
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Quick share allows you to publish your video immediately for everyone in your company to see. If the Quick share option is off and you want to use it, double-tap the screen to turn it on.
Note: If you turned on Quick share for a video that has already been published to a specified group or contact, the option is locked. If you changed your mind and want to unselect it, swipe right until you hear "Cancel button," and double-tap the screen. The focus returns to the list of your videos.
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To toggle on or off options for people timeline, comments, or captions, swipe left or right until you hear "Video options," and double-tap the screen. Swipe right to browse the available options, and double-tap the screen to select or unselect an option. To exit the video options, swipe left until you hear "Back button," and double-tap the screen. The focus returns to the previous options window.
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To save and apply the changes, swipe right until you hear "Save," and double-tap the screen. The focus returns to the list of your videos.
Find all your videos
You can find all the videos that you've uploaded in the My videos list.
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To move the focus to the bottom of the screen, tap the screen with four fingers near the bottom of the screen. You hear: "Settings, tab."
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Swipe left until you hear "My content tab," and double-tap the screen.
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To move the focus to the top of the screen, tap the screen with four fingers near the top of the screen. You hear: "My content, heading."
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Swipe right until you hear "My videos," and double-tap the screen.
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To browse the list of your videos, swipe right. Your screen reader announces the video title and the length of the video.
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To play a video, double-tap the screen.
Delete a video
You can delete videos that you've uploaded to Microsoft Stream or videos that you own.
When you delete a video, it goes into the recycle bin for 30 days. If no action is taken within 30 days, they will automatically be purged from the recycle bin and permanently deleted.
Note: Use Microsoft Stream for the web in your browser to restore videos from the recycle bin. Restoring videos isn't currently supported in the Microsoft Stream app.
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Navigate to the video you want to delete. For instructions, go to Find all your videos.
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Once you've found the video, swipe right until you hear "Menu button," and double-tap the screen. The menu of available actions opens.
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Swipe right until you hear "Tap to delete this video," and double-tap the screen.
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A confirmation window opens. To move the video to the recycle bin, swipe right until you hear "Delete," and double-tap the screen. The focus returns to the list of your videos.
See also
Use a screen reader to play videos in Microsoft Stream
Use a screen reader to find content in Microsoft Stream
Use Microsoft Stream with TalkBack, the built-in Android screen reader, to upload videos, update video details, or delete your videos.
Notes:
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New Microsoft 365 features are released gradually to Microsoft 365 subscribers, so your app might not have these features yet. To learn how you can get new features faster, join the Office Insider program.
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This topic assumes that you are using the built-in Android screen reader, TalkBack. To learn more about using TalkBack, go to Android accessibility.
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For the full experience, use Microsoft Stream on the web. In your browser, go to https://msit.microsoftstream.com/.
In this topic
Upload a video
You can upload a video from your device. To quickly publish a video for everyone in your company, use the Quick share option. If you want only specific groups, channels, or contacts to view your video, use Microsoft Stream on the web to manage the video permissions.
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In the Discover or My content tab, swipe right or left until you hear "Tap to upload a video," and double-tap the screen. If Stream asks for permission to access your photos, media, and files, swipe right until you reach the ALLOW button, and double-tap the screen.
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A list of your recent videos opens. Swipe right until you hear the video you want, and double-tap the screen to select it.
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You're prompted to select the default video language. Swipe right until you hear "Set language," and double-tap the screen. Swipe right until you hear the language you want, and double-tap the screen. To exit the language list, swipe down-then-left. The focus moves to the Upload window.
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To give your video a descriptive name, swipe left or right until you hear the current video name, and double-tap the screen. Use the on-screen keyboard to type the new name. To close the keyboard, swipe down-then-left.
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To add a description to your video, swipe left or right until you hear "Write a description," double-tap the screen, and use the on-screen keyboard to type. To close the keyboard, swipe down-then-left.
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To move to the next set of options, swipe right until you hear "Next," and double-tap the screen.
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Swipe right until you hear: "Quick share, On." The Quick share option allows you to publish your video immediately for everyone in your company to see. To turn it off, double-tap the screen.
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To turn on or off options for people timeline, comments, or captions, swipe left or right until you hear "Video options," and double-tap the screen. Swipe right to browse the available options, and double-tap the screen to select or unselect an option. Once you're done, swipe left until you hear "Tap to go back," and double-tap the screen.
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To publish your video, do one of the following:
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If you're using the Quick share option, swipe right until you hear "Publish," and double-tap the screen. The video is published, and everyone in your company is allowed to watch it. To return to the list of your videos, swipe right until you hear "Done," and double-tap the screen.
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If you turned off the Quick share option, swipe right until you hear "Save as draft," and double-tap the screen. The video is saved, but not published. To return to the list of your videos, swipe right until you hear "Done," and double-tap the screen.
To publish your draft video, navigate to the draft video as instructed in Find all your videos. Swipe right until you hear "Menu," and double-tap the screen. Swipe right until you hear "Publish," and double-tap the screen.
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Update the details of your video
You can change the details and settings of both draft and published videos. You can, for example, edit the video name and description, allow Microsoft Stream to add a timeline view of people who appear in your video, or allow viewers to leave comments.
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Navigate to the video whose details you want to edit. For instructions, go to Find all your videos.
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Once you've found the video, swipe right until you hear "Menu," and double-tap the screen. The menu for available actions for the video opens.
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Swipe right until you hear "Edit button," and double-tap the screen. You hear: "Text field, is editing." The focus is in the video name text field.
If you're prompted to set a default language, swipe right until you hear "Close," and double-tap the screen.
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To change the video name, swipe right until you hear the current name, and double-tap the screen. Use the on-screen keyboard to type a new name. To close the keyboard, swipe down-then-left.
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To change the video description, swipe left or right until you hear either "Write a description" or the current description, and double-tap the screen. Use the on-screen keyboard to type a new name. To close the keyboard, swipe down-then-left.
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To change the video language for the transcript, swipe left or right until you hear "Language," and double-tap the screen. Swipe right until you hear the language you want, and double-tap the screen. To exit the language list, swipe down-then-left.
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To move to the next set of options, swipe left or right until you hear "Next," and double-tap the screen.
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Swipe right until you hear: "Quick share." The Quick share option allows you to publish your video immediately for everyone in your company to see. If the Quick share option is off and you want to use it, double-tap the screen to turn it on.
Note: If you turned on Quick share for a video that has already been published to a specified group, channel, or contact, the option is locked. If you changed your mind and want to unselect it, swipe right until you hear "Cancel button," and double-tap the screen. The focus returns to the list of your videos.
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To toggle on or off options for people timeline, comments, or captions, swipe left or right until you hear "Video options," and double-tap the screen. Swipe right to browse the available options, and double-tap the screen to select or unselect an option. To exit the video options, swipe left until you hear "Back button," and double-tap the screen. The focus returns to the previous options window.
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To save or publish your changes, do one of the following:
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To save and apply your changes, swipe right until you hear "Save," and double-tap the screen to save and apply the changes.
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If you turned on the Quick share option for a draft video, swipe right until you hear "Publish," and double-tap the screen. The video is published, and everyone in your company is allowed to watch it. To return to the list of your videos, swipe right until you hear "Done," and double-tap the screen.
The focus returns to the My content tab.
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Find all your videos
You can find all the videos that you've uploaded in the My videos list.
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To move the focus to the bottom of the screen, swipe down-then-up. You hear: "Settings, tab."
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Swipe left until you hear "My content tab," and double-tap the screen.
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To move the focus to the top of the screen, swipe up-then-down. You hear: "My content, heading."
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Swipe right until you hear "My videos," and double-tap the screen.
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To browse the list of your videos, swipe right. Your screen reader announces the video title and the length of the video.
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To play a video, double-tap the screen.
Delete a video
You can delete videos that you've uploaded to Microsoft Stream or videos that you own.
When you delete a video, it goes into the recycle bin for 30 days. If no action is taken within 30 days, they will automatically be purged from the recycle bin and permanently deleted.
Note: Use Microsoft Stream for the web in your browser to restore videos from the recycle bin. Restoring videos isn't currently supported in the Microsoft Stream app.
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Navigate to the video you want to delete. For instructions, go to Find all your videos.
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Once you've found the video, swipe right until you hear "Menu button," and double-tap the screen. The menu of available actions opens.
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Swipe right until you hear "Tap to delete this video," and double-tap the screen.
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A confirmation window opens. To move the video to the recycle bin, swipe right until you hear "Delete," and double-tap the screen. The focus returns to the list of your videos.
See also
Use a screen reader to play videos in Microsoft Stream
Use a screen reader to find content in Microsoft Stream
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