[Accessibility] word-by-word keyboard navigation does not work in Output View

[jooyoungseo]

Type: Bug

CC @meganrogge

1. Activate Output View (ctrl+shift+U)

2. Choose "Windows" as output channel

3. In the Output View, press ctrl+LeftArrow or ctrl+RightArrow to see if you can move around on a word level.

• Note: I don't hear any word-by-word announcement when using screen readers, such as JAWS and NVDA.

VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.84.0-insider (35419fc016b8d3d5dbc59aa11a0be957b0897309, 2023-10-27T10:41:08.734Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22621 Modes:

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[meganrogge]

Word by word navigation / announcement via option on mac when in the output channel works with VoiceOver, so I find this surprising. I'll have to test on windows.

[meganrogge]

Word navigation doesn't work on windows, which is why there's no announcement.

[sandy081]

@meganrogge Output view is backed by the text editor.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/e92f242b37382592fecddf62e6bfd5e8afc8a717/src/vs/workbench/contrib/output/browser/outputView.ts#L152

Should I have to set some editor options to make this work?

[meganrogge]

It looks like the word navigation commands are disabled on windows via the when condition because of https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/90578

As such, it works if I disable screen reader mode.

With screen reader mode enabled, word navigation does work in the editor, though not as a result of a VS Code command, but natively. It's not clear why that does not also work when in the output view, maybe you're right about some option.

[meganrogge]

@alexdima do you know if there's some option which enables this?