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many of the Copilot Agent responses are not accessible to a screen reader and the reply "inline" is a very poor keyboarding experience  #252090

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@Electro-Jam

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@Electro-Jam

Type: Bug

I use a screen reader to hear the responses as I go back and forth with Copilot. I am trying out the use of the Agent mode and ChatGPT 4.1. In this case I am giving it a task to reivew what needs to be checked in, create a commit, and let me review it before it goes in.

Many of the replies are not being read back to the screen reader (in this case i am using NVDA).

Once there is a reply getting to the options such as "continue" or "cancel" is a LOT of keyboard work. I would like to simply be able to reply and say continue or cancle.

I will add a few smapshots so you can see the issue.

VS Code version: Code 1.101.1 (18e3a1e, 2025-06-18T13:35:12.605Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100
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