Powertoys: Accessibility: results and suggestions not being read by screen reader in flow launcher

[devinprater]

ℹ Computer information

• PowerToys version: 0.21.1
• PowerToy Utility: Flow Launcher
• Running PowerToys as Admin: No
• Windows build number: [run "winver"] Version 2004 (OS Build 19041.508)

📝 Provide detailed reproduction steps (if any)

1. With the NVDA screen reader running, press the keyboard command, like Alt + Space, to open the flow launcher.
2. Type ~2*4~.

✔️ Expected result

The screen reader should report the result, or suggestions, of typed text. In this case, the screen reader should read speak "8".

❌ Actual result

The screen reader reads none of the output. One can use the arrow keys to change the input, but that's it.

📷 Screenshots

No screenshots necessary.

[dedavis6797]

@saahmedm I put this in the 2010 milestone since this is pretty fundamental for accessibility.

[dedavis6797]

This should probably work exactly as Start menu does.

[arjunbalgovind]

@devinprater We made several fixes in this space in 0.23. I'm unable to reproduce the behavior mentioned on the new release, can you check if it works as expected for you?

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[devinprater]

This will depend on the fixing of this issue, because I really don't want to even try to reconfigure the current command to launch the launcher, currently set to Control + Alt + Delete, so it doesn't work.

[crutkas]

@devinprater we have a fix for #6110 but that won't be in until 0.25 is release end of month.

[saahmedm]

hi @devinprater, we think we've fixed this with our accessibility fixes and @arjunbalgovind was unable to repro. Please do checkout when 0.25 is released and let us know if you're still facing this

[devinprater]

I will when the issue of binding keys trapping screen readers in that dialog is fixed, as the current key for me to launch the launcher is Control + Alt + Delete, which will not work.

[crutkas]

@devinprater the trap has been fixed in 0.25 in settings.

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has been marked as requiring author feedback but has not had any activity for 5 days. It will be closed if no further activity occurs within 5 days of this comment.

[devinprater]

Okay, I thought I'd replied to this but it works great now, thanks so much for the fix.