[accessibility] screen reader cannot announce results while navigating between results in search box

[SeanTolstoyevski]

• VS Code Version: 1.123.0 (system setup)
• OS Version: windows 11 pRO

Steps to Reproduce:

1. NVDA is opened.
2. A project is opened with VSCode.
3. Search box is opened with CTRL + Shift + F and a text known to be in the project is entered into the search box.
4. To reach results, tab is pressed until the treeview showing results is reached.
5. When we focus on the treeview, NVDA tells us, for example: 48 results in 4 files - Search: foot
6. {regression} User navigates between results with arrow keys but NVDA cannot announce the search results, moreover even in object navigation (NVDA + num4/num6 etc.) these cannot be captured by NVDA.
   NOTE: navigation works correctly but NVDA seems unable to access the objects here.

findings:

This regression probably occurred in version 123.0. There was no such problem in the previous version.

[meganrogge]

I'm not aware of any changes here.

If this is a confirmed regression, it would help to know which change caused it. We maintain a node.js based CLI tool vscode-bisect that automatically downloads and runs previous VS Code insiders and asks for each build if the issue reproduces. It takes up to 8 steps to find exactly the build that caused the regression.

Steps:

• install node.js (if not yet done)
• npx --yes @vscode/vscode-bisect@latest
• follow the instructions until you found the offending build (its fine to leave the commit empty)
• report back the commit range in this issue

Thanks!

[SeanTolstoyevski]

hi @meganrogge ,

I don't know the things you explained, NodeJS is not my area of expertise and I am not a VSCode developer, but I confirmed the regression as follows:

1. This morning (5 June 2026 UTC+3 ) my machine automatically installed version 1.123.0.
   I could not use the search screen in this version.
2. To understand whether the problem originated from this version or something else caused it, I installed the previous version: 1.122.1.
   As a note, I can say that the same extensions were installed and I did not change anything else on the system.
   After installing version 1.122.1, I can use the search screens. No problem appears.

I am sorry I cannot provide further technical information.

[meganrogge]

Agent thinks it's from this @dmitrivMS #282309

[dmitrivMS]

@meganrogge Thanks, looking.