Excess Speech Output on Play with Screen Reader

Issue type

Accessibility issue (e.g. for keyboard-only or screen reader users)

Description with steps to reproduce

In 4.6when you press space bar to Play or to pause the screen reader announces "Play". Speech is generally unnecessary and creates more chatter if the resulting action is clear without any announcement. e.g. the music starts playing or stops playing. But in this case the announcement of the word "Play" can be distracting or even make it hard to hear the first note of the section being played. Can this be silenced again as it was in 4.5?

Supporting files, videos and screenshots

N/A

In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?

4.6.1

Regression

Yes, this used to work in a previous version of MuseScore 4.x

Operating system

Windows 11 with NVDA

Additional context

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Reproduce the issue in MuseScore Studio 4.6.1 on Windows 11 with NVDA by using the space bar to play and pause, then compare the behavior with version 4.5. The fix is complete when playback still toggles correctly without the redundant “Play” announcement that obscures the first note.