make chat thinking stream screen reader accessible#287640
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Pull request overview
This PR adds accessibility support for "thinking" content in chat responses. It creates a new accessible view that allows screen reader users to access the AI's thinking process during chat interactions.
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- New
ChatThinkingAccessibleViewclass to provide accessible view support for thinking content - Registration of the new accessible view in the contribution registry
- Added
ChatThinkingenum value toAccessibleViewProviderId
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src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/accessibility/chatThinkingAccessibleView.ts |
New accessible view implementation that extracts and presents thinking content from chat responses |
src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/chat.contribution.ts |
Imports and registers the new ChatThinkingAccessibleView |
src/vs/platform/accessibility/browser/accessibleView.ts |
Adds ChatThinking provider ID to the enum |
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@justschen not familiar with the thinking streaming, so pls lmk if i'm doing something wrong or if there's a better way to get the content 😄 |
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fixes #286777
Adds a
ChatThinkingAccessibleView, which can be accessed via a command. If no thinking is present, we alert to indicate that. Otherwise, we open the accessible view with the current thinking content.Uses
shift+alt+f2to align with and extend the existingalt+f2one.