Also, hiding the status bar only solves the problem of the extra information being spoken when you delete a message. There are other occasions where unwanted speech will still occur.

If this issue has not been reported in Bugzilla I am more than willing to do so but I confess I won't have time to do this until Saturday at the earliest. The real solution is to do this. Since this seems to primarily affect NVDA I'm wondering if NV Access might be able to release an interim update which works around this issue. Ideally, the developer of the software should be the ones to correct issues like this and, once the issue has been properly reported, I predict that this will happen. However, sometimes screen reader developers may choose to see if a workaround can be added to an update to their product and I'm wondering how feasible this might be for NV Access. Filing this issue in their github certainly wouldn't hurt. Worst case scenario: they may not be able to correct it on NVDA's side of the house or it may take more resources than they can invest but it can't hurt to try.


David Goldfield,
Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist
JAWS Certified, 2019

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