Copilot in VS Code - reading suggestions to a screen reader

[benjiallen]

Quoting @jeanbrazcosta from comment on June 4 2022

Good morning, I'm blind, and I've been using copillot in vscode, along with the NVDA screen reader.

It happens that, when opening a java class and starting to type, I hear a sound from the extension informing that there is a suggestion, but I don't have a shortcut or command for the reader to read the suggestion.

I can only see what it is, when I press tab or when I press high + enter.

If anyone can help, I appreciate it!

[benjiallen]

Hi @jeanbrazcosta, thanks for the feedback. Let me reach out to some colleagues to see if I can find some help for your query.

[jeanbrazcosta]

Thanks for the feedback @benjiallen, I reported this same issue to the VsCode team, but they told me I should open this improvement request directly to the copilot extension team.

Reading the documentation, I saw that it has the shortcut control + [ so that it displays a new suggestion when accepting with the tab, but even using this shortcut the screen reader didn't read the suggestion before I inserted it into the class.

If you need any more information, I'm at your disposal.

[cehfisher]

Hello @jeanbrazcosta - I wanted to check in on this issue. Have the recent changes to GitHub Copilot resolved it for you? If so, could you please close this issue? If not, do you have any updates to add to what you already reported? Thank you for your feedback! (cc @queenofcorgis)

[jeanbrazcosta]

Yes, I will close this issue , as the updates have already resolved what I reported here

[jeanbrazcosta]

Can anyone close this topic please?

I don't have the option to do that.

[queenofcorgis]

I got you @jeanbrazcosta - only the original poster or a member of the Community team can close posts 😃