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How to check if narrator is enabled in UWP
I want to check if Windows narrator is enabled in UWP. Is there any event which I can subscribe to get narrator event? Alternatively is it possible to check if narrator is enabled?
I tried to find if ...
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Accessibility Issue: The narrator announces the selected radio button as "non-selected" when the focus moves to the radio button
Working on the Angular 16 reactive form, where we are creating the p-radiobutton dynamically. When the user uses the screen-reader to select a radio button, the JAWS/Narrator announces it as non-...
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How to make TextBlock inside UserControl readable by Narrator in WPF
Narrator is not reading the TextBlock inside a UserControl:
<UserControl.Template>
<ControlTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="Test text" Focusable="True" ...
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How to control which text Narrator reads
I need to add some text to what Narrator reads from a Win32 ListView. E.g., besides a listview item's caption, it needs to say the type of the item (the type is defined by the application in this case)...
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Why does the screen reader Narrator announce an item in an unordered list as heading 1?
I have a form progress component which is made up of a simple unordered list but Narrator with Chrome announces it incorrectly as a heading level 1 whereas Edge doesn't.
Codepen here: https://codepen....
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Making a tkinter window acessible to Windows narrator
I was wondering if i could output something that the windows narrator can use to narrate my tkiner application.
import tkinter as tk
# create root window
root = tk.Tk()
root.title("Test")
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Accessibility narrator reading the model class name instead of grid content of WPF application
In my WPF application, there is a grid view with three columns as Name, City, and Country. Please see the model class:
public class Employee
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public string ...
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Narrator narrating UI element with `isTabStop=false`
I have one xaml page where there are multiple UI elements are there, and i wanted narrator to pick some UI element and ignore other. So with below code you can, see that I have four Grid Row ...
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Screen reader not reading TextBlock content in WPF application
I am writing a WPF (.net 5) application which should support accessibility specifically windows narrator to read out the screen text. I am using few TextBlocks and expect that as soon as window is ...
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How to get Narrator to read the text in a WPF Popup?
I've got a WPF application which contains a button. When you press the button, a Popup opens. The Popup contains information about the meeting in question.
With Narrator turned on, the contents of the ...
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How to Access Narrator Programmatically in Xamarin.forms?
How to Access CustomText in Xamarin.forms?
I'm trying to access narrator by referring https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/narrator-and-voice-input/2-audio-descriptions-with-narrator.
I'm ...
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UWP - automationProperties.Name in case of a change in value
I have a ListView which is populating the result based on DataTemplate. See the code below
I am raising property changed event in cpp to reflect the same in UI for ResultText field.
But the same value ...
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Opening ComboBox in Panel, Windows Narrator announces document title
I'm having an issue with Windows Narrator on Edge where if I have a combo box (dropdown) inside a panel (modal), opening combo box starts announcing title of the tab. This issue is specific to Edge ...
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Make infragistics' XamRichTextEditor visible to a screen reader
I have an accessibility problem with a rich text control in a clients' WPF project.
My client uses the XamRichTextEditor by infragistics, but Microsoft Narrator does not read its contents.
I have ...
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Accessibility for highcharts having multiple series
Highcharts.chart('container',{
chart: {
//renderTo: document.getElementById("container"),
type: 'column'
},
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Stop Screen Reader to read my control type in WPF
I have an old WPF application with needs and accessibility features. The application uses radio buttons to construct a menu with a popup.
The problem is the user doesn't want the narrator to say "...
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Screen reader support for react components
I'm currently developing a web app with react. For that I used react-circular-progressbar library and component look as follows.
When I use narrator for screen reading it will says as
image, some ...
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Windows narrator not announcing expanded/collapsed state when role="tab".....Accessibility
Upon clicking the button with appropriate Javascript to toggle aria-expanded property of the button.
Narrator/edge will announce the epanded/collapsed property in every click in this case. Notice role=...
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<legend> tag is not read by Windows Narrator
Windows Narrator doesn't read legend tag inside fieldset. At the same time legend is read by NVDA and JAWS properly. Markup is the following:
<fieldset>
<legend>Description</legend&...
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How to handle version numbers for screen readers?
I'm using Windows Narrator and a version number like 2.3.96 is being reader as a date "2nd March, 1996". How do I handle version numbers for screen readers? I see some answers suggested using a label ...
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How to verify windows narrator is running c#
In my case i have to decide whether the narrator is running or not.
I am using below line of code to check narrator is running .
var isNarratorStarted = AutomationPeer.ListenerExists(AutomationEvents....
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ListView/GridView and narrator WPF
I have a question to following issue:
I have a ListView that includes a GridView.
<ListView Margin="10,10,10,48" Name="listView_Anlagen" AutomationProperties.LabeledBy="{Binding Dateiname}" >
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WPF: How to prevent reading underscore character of the AccessText element by Narrator?
I faced a strange issue when trying to support both keyboard and Narrator accessibility.
In the following XAML code:
<StackPanel>
<CheckBox Name="CheckBox"
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Screen reader(Narrator) not reading the button text on chrome browser
I have question regarding screen reader (windows narrator) in chrome browser.
I have a button tag that will get focus on tab key press. I am expecting a screen reader to read what button it is but it ...
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a11y polymer button doesn´t provide auditive feedback of button state
I have the following polymer element, that inherits the "paper-behaviors/paper-button-behavior" but doesn´t provide any kind of auditive feedback when the user clicks the button. it just reads the ...
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Windows 10 Narrator. Keyboard short cut. Read document beginning at current cursor
'Caps Lock + Ctrl + i'
starts Windows 10 Narrator reading from
the start of the document.
What is the keyboard short cut combination command
to start Narrator reading
beginning at the current ...
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How to read the legend text along with the radio button label when the focus is on radio button
I have a radio button and a on top of it. When the narrator focus is on the radio button it just reads the value of radio button. But I want it to read the text value of the also.
[Code and UI ...
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Narrator does not read the text in a TextBlock as expected. Only in the selected TextBox
I have a Visual Studio 2019 solution that contains two projects: a Class Library (Universal Windows) that contains a login Page and a Blank App (Universal Windows) that simply navigates to said login ...
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Angular material radio button group - screen reader not reading properly
I am using radio button group in my application and it has 3 possible values. Whenever user is selecting a value, screen reader is reading "1 of 1" instead of "1 of 3".
I also ...
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how to make narrator to read the controls inside stackpanel in wpf
Windows narrator doesn't read the contents of stack panel, below is the snippet of stack panel
<StackPanel Name="StackAutoUpdatePanel" Focusable="True" KeyboardNavigation.IsTabStop="True" ...
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Universal Windows Application - Accessibility is not working for Canvas
<Grid Name="Simple Grid" >
<Button AutomationProperties.Name="Simple Button" Name="Button" AutomationProperties.AccessibilityView="Control" AutomationProperties.HelpText="Help text for ...
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Narrator reading empty document for text-only informative modal popup
I am developing a webpage which shows a text-only modal popup upon clicking a button on the webpage. The issue is:
Narrator is saying aria-label for the popup followed by "empty document", but the ...
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Narrator reads out "No item in view" in angular application
Earlier the angular application app worked fine.
Some changes are done in core files, that is, grand-parent html tags, now the Narrator reads out for div element:
"No item in view"
The changes ...
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JavaFX menubar Windows Narrator support
I'm currently working on a school assignment where I need to create an app for visually impaired users. I would like to use Java with JavaFx for GUI.
Preferred element for visually impaired users is ...
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Accessing XBOX Narrator Settings from web driven XBOX App
I am working on an XBOX app that is UWP javascript driven. I need to access the systems narrator settings, but have not found any options.
Does anybody know of a way to access this information, or ...
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Paragraph is not readable in Edge with narrator
I'm trying to use ARIA Labels for accessibility by the way paragraph tag is working fine in chrome using narrator tool, but is not readable in Edge. I'm not using any aria attribute for this type of ...
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How to indicate two html sections are continuation of each other
Are there any attributes or is there a way to indicate that two sections are a continuation of each other. Example below:
<section id="section-top">
<div>Item 1 </div>
<...
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How to prevent Windows Narrator from reading <title> text
When I set focus on the body tag, Windows narrator reads the text in tag. How can I prevent this from happening?
I've tried aria-hidden="true", role="presentation", tabindex="-1". None of these are ...
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Narrator Pitch on Variables in VBS
I am writing a script in VBS for when I log in I am greeted with the time. However, the XML variable for voice pitch is not functioning without text that is static. Am I missing something?
Sapi.speak ...
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Narrator reads hidden elements in scan mode
I have WPF code, where the narrator reads a hidden toggle button. It reads 'expand/collapse button'. I even set it to collapsed. And set the focusable property to false. None of this works. Is there ...
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Narrator does not read check box status when set programmatically
I have a listbox which uses the datatemplate to generate a list of checkboxes. The issue is when using the keyboard , the focus moves twice over the item. Once because of the list item and next for ...
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How to navigate narrator focus to a non-focusable app on Windows 10?
I'm working on the input app, which doesn't have focus when users are typing. And users can't press "Alt" + "Tab" key to select it as it doesn't show in the running app list.
The problem is that I ...
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Narrator. Scan mode. For TextBlock the narrator reads the Text properties twice
I have a TextBlock with dynamic data (Timer). The Text property is updated once per second.
The narrator sometimes (not always) reads the text twice in scan mode, because it have two properties with ...
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Narrator. Scan Mode. Key Press Events
I have many items with the events: "Tapped", "KeyUp", "KeyDown".
Example:
<GridView KeyDown="OnKeyDown"
Tapped="OnTapped"
KeyUp="OnKeyUp">
In the normal mode of the ...
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The Narrator ignores AutomationProperties.Name when it is in scan mode
In my UWP app I have TextBlock:
<TextBlock Text="Text0"
AutomationProperties.Name="Text1" />
The Narrator reads only the Text properties in the scan mode ignoring ...
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How to detect that narrator tool is running?
I have a custom control. i like to provide the support for System screen reading support. Is there any logic to find that the narrator or coded UI tool is enabled in our machine.??
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How to force narrator to read without focus change?
I have an input box. Based on UP and DOWN arrow keypress, I want narrator to read values from a list which is a sibling element of this input box, i.e. on pressing DOWN, the narrator should read the ...
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not able to launch narrator .exe 64 bit from a 32 bit application
i am trying to launch narrator.exe from my c# code in visual studio but it continuously throws an exception . the code which i am using is
:: " Process NarratorProcess = process.Start(@"C:\Windows\...
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Narrator. Is there an alternative DialogContent?
I have many Custom and UserControl in my app.
For DialogContent the Narrator reads only inside the control using key combination "Caps Lock" + "Arrow",
but for the CustomControl and UserControl the ...
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Not able to launch narrator from Visual Studio
I am not able to launch narrator program from Visual Studio using C#. I have tried using complete path and other similar hacks but no outcome ?
The code is :
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"C:\...
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