musescore / musescore/MuseScore
No ability for Screen Reader to report current Page/System
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Description
Issue type
Accessibility issue (e.g. for keyboard-only or screen reader users)
Description with steps to reproduce
In most software screen reader users have a shortcut key to read the status bar and often this reports the page/line count as well as other info. In NVDA this is NVDA + End, i.e. Insert + End. As the MuseScore status is for the most part being read by the screen reader with each movement and possibly doesn't contain this info anyway could we use this shortcut to instead report the current page and system.
Currently there is no way for a blind user to know the page layout and system layout is also very hard to determine. This makes it hard to layout something for print readers or to know where you are when communicating with people using the print score. This is an issue which seems to be causing a lot of difficulties.
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In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?
4.7.3
Regression
No.
Operating system
Windows 11 with NVDA
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