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I'm building a vscode extension which has multiple webviews that are expected to be accessible with JAWS screen reader. While JAWS correctly reads the information of tab-able controls in the UI along with the labels/description associated with it, it skips through all the standalone text. I.e., it does not read headings, subheadings, paragraph text, general descriptive text in the page. Is there any setting I must use to read the page text?

I noticed that JAWS also doesn't read the headings in the vscode welcome page - Here the headings 'Start', 'Walkthroughs', and 'Recent' are not being read. Is this a bug or am I using JAWS wrong?

vscode welcome page

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  • How are you navigating to the headings? Using the JAWS shortcut key 'H'? And it doesn't work?
    – slugolicious
    Commented Oct 30, 2023 at 13:58
  • @slugolicious I was trying INSERT+down arrow to read the full page but it only reads the page title and no content in the page. Just tried with 'H' key but JAWS just announces 'H'?
    – Darshana Suresh
    Commented Oct 31, 2023 at 9:39
  • If you hear 'H' instead of navigating to a heading, it sounds like you need to switch modes in JAWS. Try Ins+Z to toggle modes then try 'H' again.
    – slugolicious
    Commented Oct 31, 2023 at 18:26
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