Accessibility: navigating / reading comments treeview is overly verbose and inefficient with screen readers #236769
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Description
Type: Bug
- Open a file associated with a Copilot-enabled Github repository.
- Select some or all of the file
- Choose Copilot review / comment from Command pallet.
- Move focus to the comments treeview by pressing f6 one or more times.
- Arrow up and down the comments treeview.
- Take note of how a screen reader (such as NVDA) reports each treeview item. Or use an accessibility inspection tool and look at what is exposed via the treeview item's name property.
- Note that each comment starts with the text: "Inspect this in the accessible view (Alt+F2).", before the actual comment. Thus the user hears for example: "Inspect this in the accessible view (Alt+F2). GitHub Copilot at line 8 column 1 in adventure_singleKey.py Comment: The wildcard import
from kid import *can lead to namespace pollution and potential conflicts..."
to increase efficiency, it would be much better if the text about inspection in the accessible view was included after the comment itself, or perhaps via the description (accDescription) property, rather than name (accName).
VS Code version: Code 1.96.2 (fabdb6a, 2024-12-19T10:22:47.216Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.27764
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System Info
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| CPUs | Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz (12 x 2592) |
| GPU Status | 2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: enabled webnn: disabled_off |
| Load (avg) | undefined |
| Memory (System) | 15.72GB (5.85GB free) |
| Process Argv | . --crash-reporter-id 3ccf12dd-ee3d-4980-bdfc-6a5f9d3079ed |
| Screen Reader | yes |
| VM | 0% |
Extensions (22)
| Extension | Author (truncated) | Version |
|---|---|---|
| pythoncpp-debug | ben | 0.3.0 |
| ruff | cha | 2024.56.0 |
| doxdocgen | csc | 1.4.0 |
| vscode-markdownlint | Dav | 0.57.0 |
| EditorConfig | Edi | 0.16.4 |
| copilot | Git | 1.254.0 |
| copilot-chat | Git | 0.23.2 |
| vscode-pull-request-github | Git | 0.102.0 |
| vscode-docker | ms- | 1.29.3 |
| vscode-kubernetes-tools | ms- | 1.3.18 |
| debugpy | ms- | 2024.14.0 |
| isort | ms- | 2023.10.1 |
| python | ms- | 2024.22.0 |
| vscode-pylance | ms- | 2024.12.1 |
| remote-ssh | ms- | 0.116.1 |
| remote-ssh-edit | ms- | 0.87.0 |
| remote-wsl | ms- | 0.88.5 |
| cpptools | ms- | 1.22.11 |
| cpptools-extension-pack | ms- | 1.3.0 |
| powershell | ms- | 2024.4.0 |
| remote-explorer | ms- | 0.4.3 |
| vscode-yaml | red | 1.15.0 |
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