NVDA Add-on For Microsoft Visual Studio Code

This NVDA add-on provides fixes and improvements mostly for the editor component of the Microsoft Visual Studio Code development environment. Please note that Microsoft Visual Studio Code is not a Microsoft Visual Studio IDE. It is a lightweight code editor with very advanced features.

Features of this add-on

• The add-on supports all the editions, including: stable, insider, or local development
• The add-on is Python 3 compatible and tested under NVDA 2019.3,
• Use NVDA key + space to leave forms mode when you need it for we need to overwrite the escape key,
• Reading the entire line from the beginning after completion is prevented,

Additional notes and issues

• Keeping Visual Studio Code updated brings many improvements for the team is actively improving its accessibility,
• Microsoft Visual Studio Code is based on Chrome Electron , which lets create standalone applications based on JavaScript and HTML components. Therefore, it behaves alot like a web application.
• The editor is a large textarea field. The content of that textarea is updated by Visual Studio Code specifically to enable screen reader support. It is a temporary work-around, for the wai-aria features, which would allow for native handling of the regular editor component are not yet fully implemented by Chrome Electron.