Issues with Teams

Hi all.
I've been using Teams on Mac OS for a while now and it works much better for me than it does with JAWS on windows, mainly because JAWS is really sluggish with Teams.
Unfortunately, I've been having one problem that I can't seem to get rid of.
When arrowing through a channel in a team, VO will be interrupted by a menu that pops up.
For example, I'll hear something like "Threaded conversation with 15 repl menu."
I was hoping this issue could be handled by having the mouse not follow the VO cursor while in Teams. This seems to have helped, but I'll occasionally still have the dreaded menu interrupt the reading of my messages every now and then.
I've tried sliding the mouse pointer to the corner of the screen to see if that might help but it hasn't.
Has anyone found a way to deal with this issue? It's basically the only thing stopping me from using Teams on Mac OS for work.