[Accessibility] Cannot use word-by-word standard navigation in Output View

[jooyoungseo]

Type: Bug

CC @meganrogge

[I cannot easily find my authored issue so I am creating a new]

Ctrl+LeftArrow and Ctrl+RightArrow does not work in the Output View (Ctrl+Shift+U) area. This happens on Windows. This means screen reader users cannot navigate word by word within the output view.

Reproducible Steps

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+U to focus in the Output View

2. Choose any output (e.g., terminal)

3. See if you can navigate word by word via Ctrl+LeftArrow or Ctrl+RightArrow

VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.92.0-insider (a35380d6f0ff65f7c35345baafcf1c3f8a378d38, 2024-07-12T05:08:08.550Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631 Modes:

System Info

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webnn: disabled_off| |Load (avg)|undefined| |Memory (System)|15.71GB (3.14GB free)| |Process Argv|--crash-reporter-id b05b88e5-8894-4031-ae34-fa034ebddea9| |Screen Reader|yes| |VM|0%|

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A/B Experiments

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[meganrogge]

@sandy081 do you know why this isn't currently supported?

[sandy081]

@meganrogge It seems to work for me in Mac, are you seeing it otherwise?

[meganrogge]

It does work for me, although sometimes with the screen reader enabled, it's reading the word then a whole chunk of text. I'll try on windows.

[jooyoungseo]

It’s not working in Windows.

[meganrogge]

Can reproduce on windows. I see that this is happening because there's a part of the when clause for cursorWordLeft and cursorWordRight of !accessibilityModeEnabled for windows

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/43421396473f3b47a516a41fd8f10a5dd99252c6/src/vs/editor/contrib/wordOperations/browser/wordOperations.ts#L131

[meganrogge]

Removing that from the when clause fixes it. Looks like that condition was added to fix this https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/90578.

@jooyoungseo can you try removing that condition from the when clause and seeing if you experience any consequences of doing so? Based on my testing, it seems fine.

[meganrogge]

Ctrl+shift+left/rightArrow will now also work to select the words